- From: Scott Lawrence <lawrence@agranat.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 08:33:54 -0400
- To: jschroeder@becomsys.de, http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> From: Jacob Schroeder [mailto:js@catilina.becomsys.de] > Subject: terminology question > I'm just trying to understand the terms > "representation" and "variant". > > After reading the spec for a while I suspect that > every possible entity from a given resource is a > "variant" and if content negotiation comes into play > it is termed "representation" as well. I would rephrase that to make one distinction - every possible entity returned for a resource is a variant of that resource. Any particular entity returned for a particular request is a representation of that resource. > If I have a document that changes only over time (eg CGI output), then > are the different entities termed as different "variants" > of the same resource as well? Only in some theoretical sense, I guess. Is there some particular rule that seems ambiguous for your case that hinges on the definition of these terms?
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