- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 20:39:55 -0700
- To: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Champion, Mike wrote: > I really should shut up because this is all a couple levels of abstraction > above my head. Still, it would seem to me that the "abstract things" a HTTP > URI represents in the real Web are something akin to "documents." That world view is both plausible and consistent, the problem is that there are counter-examples; the Web already contains plenty of physical robots and cameras and so on addressible with HTTP URIs whose state can be manipulated with PUT & POST & so on, and when you do a GET you're getting a representation which might well be a document but the resource just plain isn't. And as several people pointed out, it doesn't really matter. Using RESTful operations you can deal with representations in a consistent and useful way and nothing is observed to break. With some future semantic web we hope to be able to exchange and use information about the resources behind the URIs which hopefully will taste great and yet be more filling than mere representations (useful though representations are). -Tim
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