RE: Issue #170 proposal - referencing to missing data

neither did I, but I don't think this needs to be said
explicitly. IMHO "MUST dereference" means just "MUST get the
data" and the "in any way suitable" is implied by the way web
works. 8-)

                   Jacek Kopecky

                   Senior Architect, Systinet (formerly Idoox)
                   http://www.systinet.com/



On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen wrote:

 >
 > You bet - I certainly did not intend to imply otherwise :)
 >
 > Henrik
 >
 > >I'd also want to be careful about "derefencing".  It's
 > >certainly possible that the client is holding a valid cached
 > >version of a representation of the resource.  I'd hate the
 > >spec to force it to use the network in this case.
 > >
 > >We should be clear that "dereferencing" can be done without
 > >the use of the network.
 >

Received on Monday, 3 December 2001 15:16:59 UTC