- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 13:50:32 -0800
- To: algermissen@acm.org
- Cc: "'www-tag@w3.org'" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Dec 5, 2003, at 1:45 PM, Jan Algermissen wrote: > Hmm...this confuses me - isnt't dispatching to the right application > one of the primary uses/purposes of mime-types? > >> because the RSS client doesn't need the >> representation, it needs the URI. > > What do you mean by "it needs the URI"? I mean it needs the URI, because it wants to *subscribe* to the feed, i.e. stash the URI away somewhere and do a GET on it regularly to see if anything's changed. I've suggested that in fact this proposed scheme shouldn't be named "feed:" it should be named "subscribe:" -Tim
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