Re: More on distinguishing information resources from other resources

Karl Dubost wrote:

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> Le 05-06-28 � 14:55, Henry S. Thompson a �crit :
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>> So I welcome additions to this list, that is, of real http: URIs
>> without fragids which evidently do _not_ identify information
>> resources.
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> What about URIs
>     http://example.org/directory/
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> where the server sends back the list of files contained in a 
> directory. For example,
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>     http://www.w3.org/Tools/Ical2html/
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> Is it an information resource?

Yup.

The fact that you and I know that the HTML page you
get was generated by Apache or Jigsaw rather than
a webmaster using Emacs or a crontab'd Perl script is
irrelevant, I think. The server made the page, but it's still
just a Web page.

Dan

Received on Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:17:33 UTC