- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:35:59 -0700
- To: "Dan Brickley" <danbri@w3.org>, "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>
> There's a large class of http:-named resource for which the resource can > be exhaustively described by a content-typed bag of bytes. But there are > other resources (typically those that wrap databases, services etc) for > which we can never get a complete rendering of 'the thing itself', only > exchange messages with it. The document metaphor(*) seems too passive a Let's just acknowledge that "HTTP URL is an endpoint for message-passing" or more simply, "HTTP URL is just a switchboard", is widely regarded as abuse of HTTP. Everyone admits that people abuse POST this way, but most would agree that we should give people a better way to do their "RPC and message passing". Abuse of POST hurts more than just the semantic web.
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