- From: Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) <dbooth@hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:14:09 +0000
- To: "'Henry S. Thompson'" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- CC: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
> > From: Henry S. Thompson > > . . . . > > _What's a URI and why does it matter?_ > > http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/WhatAreURIs/ > > > > Feedback welcome, Very nice write-up! FYI, regarding the question posed near the end: "There is real debate underway at the moment as to whether it is correct for a web server to return a 200 OK response code in a response to a request for a URI which identifies a non-information resource." I believe I have provided a fairly compelling line of reasoning to conclude: http://dbooth.org/2007/splitting/#httpRange-14 "Therefore, the use of a URI to directly denote both an information resource and a non-information resource should be viewed as a violation of good practice, but *not* a violation of Web architecture." Though of course your mileage may vary. :) David Booth, Ph.D. HP Software +1 617 629 8881 office | dbooth@hp.com http://www.hp.com/go/software Statements made herein represent the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the official views of HP unless explicitly so stated.
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