- From: Pierre-Antoine Champin <swlists-040405@champin.net>
- Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 18:05:58 +0100
- To: Jitao Yang <jitao.yang@gmail.com>
- CC: "semantic-web@w3.org" <semantic-web@w3.org>
On 05/02/2011 10:33 AM, Jitao Yang wrote: > Dear all, > > In [1], "the term "resource" is used in a general sense for whatever > might be identified by a URI". Then is URI itself a resource or not? > If a URI can be identified by another URI? Well, anything you can talk about and identify can be considered a resource. URIs are no exception. However... > Such as: I have a webpage W-1, > and I move to a new webpage W-2, whenever people click W-1, then it will > redirect to W-2 automatically. Therefore, can we consider W-1 as an > identifier of W-2? No... The fact that HTTP-GETting W-1 issues a 3xx Redirect to W-2 does not by any mean allow you to infer that W-1 identifies the URI W-2 -- or the resource identified by W-2, for that matter... The only inferences that you can make from HTTP respones about what a URI identifies are listed in [1]. pa [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/httpRange-14/2007-05-31/HttpRange-14#ref-deref-table > > [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 > > Thanks, > Jitao
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