> From: uri-request@w3.org [mailto:uri-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Roy T. > Fielding > Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 2:46 PM > To: Stefan Eissing > Cc: Miles Sabin; uri@w3.org > Subject: Re: Possible new issue: Things with and without identity? > > > > > WebDAV working group decided to call a URL without a resource > > (e.g. 404 on GET) an "unmapped URL". > > WebDAV got that wrong. The filesystem object at the end of a request > is not the resource -- it is only one representation of the resource. IMHO, it may or may not "be" the resource, but it certainly is *not* a representation of the resource. It may *contain* a representation of the resource, though. > The mapping is the resource and the resource always exists, which is > is why 404 Not Found does not imply that the resource does not exist, > but rather says that no current representation of the resource exists > at the time of the request. Yes. > WebDAV talks about it that way because, for the purpose of authoring, > it doesn't matter whether there is a distinction between the resource > and the current representation of that resource -- they become effectively > the same thing because WebDAV actions exist at an instant in time and > only work on resources that are directly authorable (one-to-one > relationship between representation and resource). That's news to me. Are you saying that WebDAV resources may not vary depending on the headers in a GET request? -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760Received on Tuesday, 10 September 2002 12:26:42 UTC
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