- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:28:49 -0400
- To: "Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)" <dbooth@hp.com>
- Cc: "John Cowan" <cowan@ccil.org>, "Pat Hayes" <phayes@ihmc.us>, "Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)" <skw@hp.com>, "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@yahoo-inc.com>, "W3C-TAG" <www-tag@w3.org>
I'm not sure thing-described-by help. For one thing, the URI that you create using that service is not the one that you started with, so the relationship between u and what you get is not direct. Second, from the point of view of the english sense of the thing, the thing that describes something isn't the thing itself. I suppose that this would be OK if it was the result of a temporary redirection from u, but then a) Setting up that redirection may be an equally complicated task for Aunt Tillie b) How does one compute the effective result code through a redirect? Is it the first, the second, the last? Can't be the last, because the 303 redirects to something that returns a 200. Can't be the first because such a redirection would be a 302. -Alan On Sep 5, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) wrote: > >> From: John Cowan >> [ . . . ] >> There still remains the problem that it's fairly easy for Aunt Tillie >> to create resources that return 200, but not at all easy to >> create ones that return 303. > > A 303-redirect service such as http://thing-described-by.org makes it > very easy -- no server configuration at all. For any absolute http > URI > u, > http://thing-described-by.org?u 303-redirects to u. > > > > David Booth, Ph.D. > HP Software > +1 617 629 8881 office | dbooth@hp.com > http://www.hp.com/go/software > > Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not represent > the official views of HP unless explicitly stated otherwise. > >
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