- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:50:56 -0400
- To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Cc: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, www-talk@w3.org
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:07:39PM -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > Asking for can also be asking about. Asking about is not necessarily > asking for. Ok, let's try and compare apples to apples here... > Sure - DDDS lets you query for URI metadata. > > http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/urn-charter.html > > "Tell me about this URI..." DDDS appears to be analagous to HTTP HEAD; "tell me about this resource", whereas HTTP GET does what HEAD does, but also returns a representation of the resource itself. Does that make better sense? If so, HTTP does both, whereas DDDS only does one. 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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