- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:43:14 -0800
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: W3C TAG <www-tag@w3.org>
>>> From: Henry S. Thompson >>> . . . . >>> _What's a URI and why does it matter?_ >>> http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/WhatAreURIs/ >>> >>> Feedback welcome, Hmm, that reminds me ... 'Representation' names a pair: a character sequence and a media type. That's too simplified. A representation is some amount of data and its associated metadata that represents the state of some resource at a given point in time [which resource and which point in time is usually indicated outside the representation; e.g., in request method semantics, response message status, and message metadata like the Date header field in HTTP]. The media type is only one of many metadata, and there certainly is no requirement that the data be a "character sequence". For example, a JPEG picture of my dog is not a character sequence. ....Roy
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