- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: 29 Jul 2002 13:24:36 -0500
- To: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>, "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, www-tag@w3.org
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 17:45, Joshua Allen wrote: > [...] > REST doesn't even deal with the problem, because > the only thing that anyone ever actually deals with is a > representations. The actual "resource" in REST is a theoretical figment > of someone's imagination, and requires absolutely no consensus to have > HTTP work. You can declare that your http: URL points to a beach until > you are blue in the face, and I can declare that it points to a "web > page", and none of it will matter -- the web page still works. Well said. Whether http URIs can identify cars and such or not isn't observable from the HTTP protocol itself. > In other words, for HTTP this is simply sophistry. If we ever want the > web to progress beyond the shackles of synchronous HTTP GET, we need to > deal with the problem as a practical matter. [...] -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ see you in Montreal in August at Extreme Markup 2002?
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