- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: 12 Apr 2002 13:07:39 -0400
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 13:04, Mark Baker wrote: > > 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? Asking for can also be asking about. Asking about is not necessarily asking for. > > 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? Sure - DDDS lets you query for URI metadata. http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/urn-charter.html "Tell me about this URI..." -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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