- From: Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:19:55 -0700
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- CC: "apps-discuss@ietf.org" <apps-discuss@ietf.org>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>, URI <uri@w3.org>
You are right. But this only means that a document about <data:application/uri,http://www.ccil.org> is simply a description of the URI itself. This still does not help me relay the concept of a host. I still don't know what to put inside this data URI to convey this. EHL > -----Original Message----- > From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org] > Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 8:04 PM > To: Eran Hammer-Lahav > Cc: John Cowan; apps-discuss@ietf.org; www-tag@w3.org; URI > Subject: Re: URI for abstract concepts (domain, host, origin, site, > etc.) > > Eran Hammer-Lahav scripsit: > > > Not sure how this is going to help. You still end up with an HTTP URI > > with no clear semantic meaning other than an HTTP resource. > > What do you mean by "end up with"? A data URI is not an HTTP URI. > <http://www.ccil.org> refefers to the home page of ccil.org; > <data:application/uri,http://www.ccil.org> refers to the URI > <http://www.ccil.org>. They are two different URIs with two different > referents. > > -- > John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org > "After all, would you consider a man without honor wealthy, even if his > Dinar laid end to end would reach from here to the Temple of Toplat?" > "No, I wouldn't", the beggar replied. "Why is that?" the Master asked. > "A Dinar doesn't go very far these days, Master. --Kehlog Albran > Besides, the Temple of Toplat is across the street." The Profit
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