- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 10:28:19 -0500
- To: Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>
- Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, AWWSW TF <public-awwsw@w3.org>
On May 12, 2010, at 8:54 AM, Jonathan Rees wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us> wrote: >> Well, according to http-range-14, as I understand it, if a bare URI >> gives a >> 200-level response to an HTTP GET, then it (the URI) denotes/refers >> to the >> resource that emits that response. > > I agreed with you for a while when you first wrote about this theory, > since it's an elegant theory, but now I think it makes more sense to > say that the *server* emits the response, not the document. Well then, say that the URI denotes whatever it is in the server that the response is a REST-representation of. And Im pretty sure that this is what I am (perhaps slightly loosely) here calling a "document", ie, pretty much, some thing encoded in bytes in digital memory. Not a set of triples, anyway. The main point of my message still stands: you can't refer to an RDF graph using a bare URI which returns a 200 level code, because that reference is used up referring to something else that is not a graph. > Not only > is this more consistent with the way RFC 2616 and AWWW are written, > but it lets you have a URI U that refers to a document, where a server > responds with a 200 for GET U. That is exactly what I wanted to say. Perhaps my formulation which has the document doing the responding is careless, apologies. (This is why I like the 'http endpoint' way of talking, by the way.) > This seems natural and desirable. Agreed. And to return to the main point, a document is not a graph, no matter how you cut it. Pat > But > for any sensible definition of "document", <U> is going to be > incapable of emitting a response. That's why it has a server to help > it out... in your formulation a 200 response would be prohibited > since <U> can't emit it. > > Jonathan > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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