Re: interesting hash in URLs

Paul Libbrecht scripsit:

> I believe it isn't that horrible... except for the fact that, to non- 
> browsers, http://www.cnn.com/video/ appears as a single resource. I  
> think this is the (very) criticizable part.

I think that's perfectly sound.  "http://www.cnn.com/video" is an
information resource consisting of CNN's currently available footage.
The fact it they don't stream all of that at you when you GET that URL
is a defensible local choice.

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Received on Thursday, 26 July 2007 16:05:14 UTC