- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 05:34:16 -0800
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > >... > > Paul, how do the semantics of the two things you described differ? > The google results page is exactly what happens when "accepts and > processes data". I meant "accept persistently". Accept for further processing in the future. >... > > The only problem is when the URI gets really very long indeed. This sounds more like an implementation issue than an architecture issue. The "fix" should not change any architectural principles. In particular, given an HTTP URI, I would like to be able to decide whether to use the "new method" or GET to retreive the information based only on the length of the URI and not based on pre-arrangement with the service provider. In other words, if I want to translate a word into French I send it to a service using standard GET. If I want to translate a book then I use BIG-GET. But the definition of BIG-GET should be such that translating a word through BIG-GET is always semantically equivalent to translating it through GET. Paul Prescod
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