- From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:08:53 -0500
- To: w3c-forms@w3.org
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 11:38 am, Paul Prescod wrote:
> By definition, it *is* a mapping into the URI space! But I do feel
> it would be very helpful if there were an easy way to use forms to
> build arbitrary URIs. Something like this would be useful:
>
> http://www.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1994q3/1065.html
Caught me ;-).
> Nevertheless, that's just a question of how much flexibility the
> server has in mapping to URIs, not whether it is doing so. It is.
Fair enough. I was simply saying that in many ways, the query
parameter is out of place/a hack. It doesn't belong for the same
reason a body causes problems. If the URI always maps to the same
resource (whatever that is) with a query parameter tacked on the end,
it can equally well map to a URI without query parameters.
http://www.foo.com?my+home
=> http://www.foo.com/my/home
FWIW. I think there is often a lot more data than just the URI that
belongs in bookmarks... so while we do need to grandfather the old
format, we should think about proposing bookmark metadata, including
any form data.
Received on Tuesday, 29 January 2002 15:16:54 UTC