- From: Edward Lee <edilee@mozilla.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:58:09 -0700
- To: LMM@acm.org
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 7/3/07, Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org> wrote: > You could, instead, define a new URI scheme, e.g., > hashcheck:sha256:abc123:http://site.com/file One main advantage of the proposed Link Fingerprints syntax is that it is backwards compatible and abides by the URI Generic Syntax. This allows user agents that don't recognize the Link Fingerprints to continue to retrieve resources correctly (they just remove the #fragment-id when requesting). This also satisfies the common case where Link Fingerprints do not result in a mismatch. Ed
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