- From: James Leigh <james@3roundstones.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:04:51 -0400
- To: Leigh Dodds <leigh@ldodds.com>
- Cc: public-lod community <public-lod@w3.org>
On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 19:23 +0100, Leigh Dodds wrote: > Hi James, > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:15 AM, James Leigh <james@3roundstones.com> wrote: > > Could this 308 (Permanent Redirect) give us a way to cache a probe URI's > > definition document location? > > > > An issue people have with httpRange-14 is that 303 redirects can't be > > cached. If we could agree to use a 308 response as a cache-able > > alternative to 303, we could reduce server load and speed client URI > > processing (by caching the result of a probe URI). > > I'm missing how that would help, could you elaborate? The semantics of > that response code is that the resource has permanently moved, that > seems very different to a 303. > > A strict reading and application of the rules would suggest that the > new URI should be considered a replacement of the original, so sameAs, > rather than "a description of". > 303 is a standard response code, 308 is still experimental and its semantics could still changed. However, since 303 can actually now be cached (as Jonathan pointed out), there isn't a need to look at other 3XX response codes. James
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