Re: HTTP URIs and authority

>>>The URI still identifies the poem, since I say it does
>>>(presuming I've registered example.com).  The HTML pages are still
>>>representations of the poem
>>
>>Yes. The actual HTML page is a representation-3's of the poem. But 
>>then what I GET back from that HTML page is a representation-2 of a 
>>representation-3 of the poem, not a representation-2 of the poem. 
>>The poem itself is an abstraction, existing only in some Platonic 
>>space of Pure Texts.
>Exactly.
>>Those aren't the kind of thing one can put at an http endpoint. If 
>>you want to denote the *actual poem*, you should use 303 or #.
>But here I disagree.

I should have said, IF you are going to conform to httpRange-14, THEN 
you should use 303 or #.

>what is at the end of HTTP endpoint is representation-2 of that URI 
>that finally emit 200.  As you just said, representation-2 is never 
>the same representation-3.  It doesn't matter how you chain it, you 
>never get the (3).

Agreed. Except in Jasper Fforde books :-)

Pat


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