- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 17:13:13 -0500
- To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>, <www-tag@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org> To: <www-tag@w3.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:03 PM Subject: Site metadata; my preference > > Wow, step away from your email for a few hours, and whammo ... > > My preference would be for an optional response header, "Metadata" or > some such, returned via GET and HEAD. > > I don't like MGET for the reasons explained in the TAG finding on > "URIs, Addressability, and the use of HTTP GET"; > > "Safe operations (read, query, view, ask, lookup, etc.) on HTTP > resources SHOULD be implemented using GET because that allows the > result documents to be identified by URI, while using POST does not." > -- http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/get7#principles-summary Well said. > MB > -- > Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca > Web architecture consulting, technical reports, evaluation & analysis >
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