- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:13:25 -0400
- To: ashok.malhotra@oracle.com
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
On 2011-06 -16, at 12:09, ashok malhotra wrote: > > On 6/16/2011 8:28 AM, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >> That said, this leaves open that if we want to invent a 209 response where the response contains information ABOUT the thing identified by the URI but not its contents, that could be useful. > > Yes, we could do that but in the situation where there is a representation and some metadata, > you would never get a 209. So, I have been leaning toward a new getMetadata HTTP verb but > I've been told that this is too radical. > > That suffers from the fact that there is a whole lot of data which has no URI - you have to say "what you get by doing a HTTP FOO on the data URI 'http://...". You can't link to that, etc. SO it breaks web architecture by not giving the FOOable thing a URI. Tim
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