- From: Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol) <skw@hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:00:14 +0100
- To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>
> > >Consider that if I'm provided two URIs, one which identifies "an XML > > >representation of my medical record at time T" (where T is fixed) and > > >the other which identifies "an XML representation of my current > > >medical record", then if I invoke GET on each at time T, I get two > > >equivalent representations back. > > >I suggest that what makes those two resources different is an > > >"essential characteristic", and because it isn't reflected in the > > >messages, > > > > > > > Small point... but that would depend on whether you regarded the > > request URI (or URI returned in header fields) part of any of the > > messages exchanged. > > I don't believe so. The response messages would certainly be > different if the URIs were included, but not different in a > way which licenses the recipient to determine whether the > essential characteristic I'm describing is present or not. You stated that a distinguishing "essential charateristic" isn't reflected in the messsages. I was remarking that the distinguishing characteristic is 'reflected' in the use of (at least) different request URI... (the request message being one of the messages exchanged to obtain a response). > Mark. > -- > Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Stuart --
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