Re: Deprecate Content-Location? (was RE: "Variant" language in Content-Location (Issue 109))

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>>> 5. What does "might be individually accessed" mean? As far as cache
>>> validation is concerned (which is the only time Content-Location is used in
>>> the protocol itself), the Content-Location doesn't have to be accessible.
>>> That whole condition can be removed since it is meaningless.
>> What's the point in supplying a Content-Location, if nobody can access it?
> 
> Could it be like XML namespace URIs - to provide a unique identifier
> that is not necessarily meant to be an accessible resource?

In theory, yes. Does this happen in practice? Do we want it to happen in 
practice?

BR, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 6 August 2008 12:48:34 UTC