Re: Dereferencing HTTP URIs (redux?)

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.
>
>
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