- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 16:02:16 +0200
- To: Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Stefan Eissing wrote: > For me, "entity" is part of the message and "representation" is part of > the resource. So, for my (probably soon corrected by the big guns here) > incomplete gut-http-feeling, it makes sense to say things like: The > representation of a resource is transferred as the entity in a HTTP > response message. +1 But not every entity transferred over HTTP is a representation of a resource. Example: the response body sent with a 404 status. BR, Julian
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