- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:04:39 -0400
- To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
> The practice is not necessarily direct, but the style is. > > An HTTP GET is *asking for* something. > > Other approaches to URI processing *ask about* something. I'm not sure I see a difference. If I do a GET on a HTTP URI, and I get a redirect directive back, that is "about" the resource. Any representation of the state is about the resource, is it not? > Minor change, major ramifications, especially since many URIs offer no > direct means of asking for but you can always ask about anything, even > HTTP URIs. Do you have an example? MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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