Re: RDF Queries in HTTP "Range" Headers

Sean B. Palmer wrote:

>>An alternative to using HTTP "Range" is to use the
>>query string of a GET.
>>    
>>
>
>Quite, although one has to balance the advantage of addressability
>with the disadvantage of not having 304 Not Modified ('stead of 206
>Partial Content) returned on failures. This means that the query would
>have to be repeated by the client, though one might want to do so even
>using Range queries... With both methods there are some minor privacy
>issues, of course, but one isn't *forced* to use server side querying,
>so that's okay.
>

Assuming that you have some way of calculating the '304 Not Modified', 
there is nothing in a CGI that precludes returning that result from a 
query string, but not from a Range header.  Unless you are suggesting 
that the web server can calculate 304 results even for a queried range, 
without the help of an RDF gateway?

Cheers,
-kls


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