Re: Issue-57

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

Received on Thursday, 23 June 2011 02:13:34 UTC