Re: non-HTTP URIs in HTTP requests from Erik Wilde on 2010-01-06 (uri@w3.org from January 2010)

From: Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:30:24 -0800
To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, "uri@w3.org" <uri@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4B4500F0.9010000@berkeley.edu>

thanks for all responses!

> Yes, that is a normal proxy request, assuming the proxy has been
> configured to resolve geo addresses.  What would the response be?

whatever that particular proxy deems appropriate (or the proxy's user 
has configured as their preferred response type or has specifically 
requested as their response through accept headers in the request), and 
that should be independent of the URI scheme or the HTTP protocol. it 
could be an HTML map page such as google maps, a portal page (such as 
http://stable.toolserver.org/geohack/geohack.php?params=37_52_18_N_122_16_22_W_type:city%28102743%29_region:US-CA), 
or some RDF for semweb applications. these could be served directly, or 
they could be served through redirects.

thanks and cheers,

dret.

Received on Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:31:02 UTC