- From: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 13:53:30 +0200
- To: "ext Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
On Dec 20, 2003, at 06:02, ext Thomas B. Passin wrote: > > Sandro Hawke wrote: >> >> That is: if you get a "200 OK" with Content-Type: application/rdf+xml, >> you know the URI (according to its host) identifies a knowledge base, Eh? What? You can't *ever* know what a given URI denotes based on what an HTTP server might give you when dereferencing that URI to a representation. That RDF/XML you get back might simply be a formal description of the thing denoted by the URI, which may very well *not* be a knowledge base. All that has happened in the above scenario is that you had a URI that denotes *something*, and you asked for a representation of that *something* encoded in a particular MIME type. In no way does the response, successful or otherwise, tell you *anything* about the nature of the actual resource denoted by that URI (other than whether it does or does not have a representation of that particular MIME type that you have the right to access). In fact, that RDF/XML you get back may explicitly tell you that the thing denoted by that URI, via which you obtained the RDF/XML, is a goat named Bubba that lives down the road from me. Regards, Patrick -- Patrick Stickler Nokia, Finland patrick.stickler@nokia.com
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