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RULE vs MGET

From: Phil Dawes <pdawes@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:11:54 +0000
Message-ID: <16462.59882.982884.929712@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
To: patrick.stickler@nokia.com
Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org

Hi Patrick,

What are the advantages of MGET over the RULE technique (e.g. add
'.meta' onto the end of the URI) for getting metadata about the
resource. I don't think I've heard any arguments to persuade me that
this isn't a workable solution. (other than it's a bit ugly).

Advantages of RULE over MGET:

 - no change required to web infrastructure (proxies, caches, webservers)
 - no change required to http client libraries (even the broken ones!)
 - simple to deploy 
        - e.g. can be done by putting text files in an existing
        public_html dir

These seem pretty big advantages to me.

Many thanks,

Phil
Received on Wednesday, 10 March 2004 05:13:09 UTC

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