- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:33:06 -0700
- To: Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>
- Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Oct 22, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org] On >> Behalf >> Of Roy T. Fielding >> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:18 PM > >> I would prefer that as well. In fact, I'd say that these >> "well-known" addresses should be limited to stuff that must be >> known before a regular resource access, such as robots and P3P, >> or are an efficiency replacement for regular access, like sitemap. > > If we are going to give guidelines on when well-known are > appropriate, we should also include cases when there is no specific > resource to associate metadata with, such as site policy of location > of site-wide services. The use of the root resource for these cases > is abusive. Agreed, though I don't understand why any of that is needed. OPTIONS was designed for this purpose. ....Roy
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