Re: Terminology (was Re: article on URIs, is this material that can be used by the)

Stuart Williams scripsit:

> This later is what the "303 see other" advice from the TAG is about. A 
> corollary of following this advise is that you don't deploy 
> webarch:Representations for people, places, books, galaxies etc. Instead 
> you arrange that attempts to 'poke' the referenced thing result in a 
> visible (in the sense that the thing doing the poking is aware of it) 
> redirection to something else that provides a description of the thin 
> originally referenced.

I think this is a satisfactory justification of the 303 convention.
My only difficulty at this stage is that while it is extremely easy
to obtain a URI or set of URIs that return 200s and representations,
the barrier to entry for returning 303 is much higher at present.

-- 
But you, Wormtongue, you have done what you could for your true master.  Some
reward you have earned at least.  Yet Saruman is apt to overlook his bargains.
I should advise you to go quickly and remind him, lest he forget your faithful
service.  --Gandalf             John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>

Received on Monday, 9 July 2007 16:46:24 UTC