Re: Important Change to HTTP semantics re. hashless URIs

On Mon 2013-Mar-25, at 09:07, Erik Isaksson <erikis@kth.se> wrote:

> So Content-Location provides a "more specific identifier", which I
> don't think helps us with avoiding 303. Anyway, personally, I think
> we're along the right track here.

Well, it can do. it depends if you're trying to differentiate two things or three things.

dbpedia and others differentiates two URIs:

- described entity (/resource/foo)

- specific serialisation (/page/foo)

In which case Content-Location is just fine for doing that. You request /resource/foo, you get a Content-Location response header containing /page/foo.

Other implementations seek to differentiate three different URIs (for a variety of reasons):

- described entity (/foo#id)

- conceptual document (/foo)

- specific serialisation of that document (/foo.ttl, /foo.n3, /foo.html, etc)

Without getting into a hash/hashless debate, 303 or C-L *alone* won't differentiate all three of those things, but using them in combination with fragments or each other will (and IMO, the combination of fragments and C-L tends to be easier there).

M.

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Received on Monday, 25 March 2013 09:15:07 UTC