- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:27:09 -0400
- To: ashok.malhotra@oracle.com
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:09 PM, ashok malhotra <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com> wrote: > > On 6/16/2011 8:28 AM, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >> >> That said, this leaves open that if we want to invent a 209 response where >> the response contains information ABOUT the thing identified by the URI but >> not its contents, that could be useful. > > Yes, we could do that but in the situation where there is a representation > and some metadata, > you would never get a 209. So, I have been leaning toward a new getMetadata > HTTP verb but > I've been told that this is too radical. With good reason. Check the archives for MGET; http://www.w3.org/Search/Mail/Public/search?keywords=mget&hdr-1-name=subject&hdr-1-query=&index-grp=Public_FULL&index-type=t&type-index=www-tag Mark.
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