- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:47:54 -0400
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Pat Hayes<phayes@ihmc.us> wrote: > > On Jul 9, 2009, at 5:03 AM, Jonathan Rees wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Roy T. Fielding<fielding@gbiv.com> wrote: >> >>> That's because you happen to be reading it differently than >>> what I was thinking when I wrote it. The sentence is a bit >>> ambiguous if you don't pay attention to what the second "that" >>> means. If it is reordered to say >>> >>> A 303 response to a GET request indicates that the server does >>> not have a transferable representation What does "transferable" add to representation? Would it be possible for someone to give an example of an *un*transferable representation? Thanks, -Alan >>> of the requested resource >>> and is instead redirecting the client to some other resource >>> for further information. >>> >>> then I think the objection is handled without watering down >>> the purpose of using the status code on a GET. >>> >>> ....Roy >> >> Excellent! The rewording you give above would be fine with me - I >> would be satisfied if HTTPbis said this, or something equivalent. >> (because then the choice to yield a 303 can be attributed to the >> server, and would not necessarily reflect on the nature of the >> resource - "the server does not have" vs. "the resource does not >> have".) > > Hmm, then I am puzzled. Does 303 redirection really imply that the server > **does not have** a transferable representation? Surely 303 redirection is > used under other circumstances than this, circumstances which have nothing > whatever to do with http-range-14 and were being used before the > http-range-14 issue was even raised? No? > > Pat > >> >> Best >> Jonathan >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 > 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office > Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax > FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile > phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes > > > > > > >
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