- From: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 11:54:03 +0000
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Roy T. Fielding wrote, > On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 03:25 AM, Miles Sabin wrote: > > Roy T. Fielding wrote, > > > BTW, my dissertation doesn't exist within the Web any more than > > > the Sun exists within the Web. Nevertheless, I could mint an http > > > URI to identify my dissertation if I wanted to and the system > > > wouldn't know the difference. > > > > I appreciate that this was meant as a closing aside, but would you > > agree that this generalizes to "Resources don't exist within the > > Web". > > No, but you could generalize it to "Some resources don't exist within > the Web." There is nothing wrong with defining a URI that does > identify a web page. Interesting. So if your thesis (which is a Resource which isn't on the web) is at http://.../thesis, and GETs on that URI return an HTML representation, could it also be true that http://.../thesis also identifies a web page (which is a different Resource which _is_ on the web)? If not, why not. Cheers, Miles
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