- From: Rhys Lewis <rhys@volantis.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:03:09 -0600 (MDT)
- To: "'Roy T. Fielding'" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Cc: "'Stuart Williams'" <skw@hp.com>, "'Ed Davies'" <edavies@nildram.co.uk>, "'Technical Architecture Group WG'" <www-tag@w3.org>
Whoops, thanks Roy. I was in too much of a hurry. I meant to say that you don't get a representation with a 303. And as far as what can or cannot be inferred from a 303, this is an item I'm hoping to get consensus on at next week's TAG F2F. As I replied to Pat earlier, I prefer the inference the way that you and he have both articulated it. Best wishes Rhys > -----Original Message----- > From: Roy T. Fielding [mailto:fielding@gbiv.com] > Sent: 13 September 2007 16:29 > To: Rhys Lewis > Cc: 'Stuart Williams'; 'Ed Davies'; 'Technical Architecture Group WG' > Subject: Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection > > On Sep 12, 2007, at 12:25 AM, Rhys Lewis wrote: > > Ok, that's a good point. What it actually says is > > > > "The response to the request can be found under a different URI and > > SHOULD be retrieved using a GET method on that resource." > > > > My interpretation is that when you get a 303 you don't get > a response > > to the request you made. Otherwise, there would be no point in > > redirecting. I perhaps stated this a little strongly, but I believe > > that what I wrote is in the spirit of the intent of 303. > > You get a response to the request you made. It may not be > the response that some applications of HTTP will be looking > for, ultimately, but that is outside the scope of HTTP. > > Anyway, this is dancing around the point. It is false to say that a > 303 response implies that the URI identifies a resource that > is not an information resource. All it implies is what the > 303 says -- if you want information about this resource in > the form of a representation, then look over there. We don't > need to speculate any further about the resource that has not > been represented. > > ....Roy >
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