- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:43:38 -0500
- To: Sean Reilly <sreilly@cnri.reston.va.us>
- Cc: Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel@gmail.com>, 'Erik Wilde' <dret@berkeley.edu>, uri@w3.org
Sean Reilly scripsit: > Say your GPS device has a built-in address book with an entry like the > following: > name: Sean Reilly > home-loc: loc:55.959123,-3.191657 > home-addr: 48 London St, ... > > An http: URL in a situation like that would be useless. Actually it would not. You are assuming that there is nothing to do with an http: URL except to attempt to GET (or POST, PUT, or DELETE) it. On the contrary; it can also be used as a unique name in its own right. If it is laid down, for example, that URIs of the form "http://geo.example.com#55.959123,-3.191657" identify a particular latitude and longitude by the owner of example.com, then that is authoritative, and there is not even a requirement on the owner to put something useful at "http://geo.example.com", though it is considered the best practice to do so. (Note that the #... part is not sent to the HTTP server.) -- They tried to pierce your heart John Cowan with a Morgul-knife that remains in the http://www.ccil.org/~cowan wound. If they had succeeded, you would become a wraith under the domination of the Dark Lord. --Gandalf
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