Re: Is 303 really necessary - demo

David Wood wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2010, at 08:37, Nathan wrote:
> 
>> Ian Davis wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> To aid discussion I create a small demo of the idea put forth in my
>>> blog post http://iand.posterous.com/is-303-really-necessary
>>> Here is the URI of a toucan:
>>> http://iandavis.com/2010/303/toucan
>> Ian, where's the demo of /toucan#frag so everybody can see that you can use 200 OK *and* keep the graph clean? will you give it fair air time in the (non-)debate? will you show us a comparison of the two and benefits of each?
>>
>>> does this break the web  and if so, how?
>> Of course it doesn't break the web, anybody who says that being HTTP friendly breaks the web is clearly wrong.
>>
>> Wrong question, correct question is "if I 200 OK will people think this is a document", to which the answer is yes. You're toucan is a :Document.
>>
> 
> Agreed.  That's my problem with this approach.

Sadly your proposed 210 still has it, the true problem isn't a status 
code thing, it's an "if I can GET it, it's a document", hence the 
earlier outlined problems with 303 as it stands, still the same problem.

Best,

Nathan