- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:32:57 -0400
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>, Michael Brunnbauer <brunni@netestate.de>, public-lod community <public-lod@w3.org>
On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 12:35 -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > [ . . . ] how about a header > > 200 OK > Document: foo123476;doc=yes > > which means "Actually the URI you gave is not the URI of a this document, > but the URI of this document is foo123476.html (a relative URI). > > - This is the same as doing a 301 to foo123476.html and returning the same content. Did you mean 303? > - Non-data clients will ignore it, and just show users the page anyway. > - Saves the round trip time of 301 > - Avoids having the same URI for the document and its subject. > > This will dismantle HTTP range-14 a bit more, but still never give the same > URI to two things. > It would mean code changes to my client code and just a reconfig > change to Ian's server. If URI owners do not want or are unable to configure their servers to serve 303 responses I don't see how they'll want or be able to configure their servers to add a special header. -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.
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