- From: Williams, Stuart <skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:21:58 -0000
- To: "'John J. Barton'" <John_Barton@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: mnot@mnot.net, xml-dist-app@w3.org, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, distobj@acm.org
Hi John, > Returning to Stuart's thread, this line of reasoning says: "don't worry > about the POST response, worry about how the client formed the message". > Semantic ignorance is bliss on the client side: the less it knows the > more we can accomplish. Sounds like the basis of a good lawyer joke :-) I guess this works if you think of a browser/UA as the client. If you think of the human being as the client then semantics ignorance on the part of the client might be problematic - he/she would have no idea what they have accomplised... or committed to. If you then replace the human client with a program... it presumably needs to be endowed with some awareness of the signifcance of the resources it manipulates. > If web service requires simultaneous upgrade > (homogeneity and central admin), we have created a lot of > angle brackets for nothing. :-) > John. > ______________________________________________________ > John J. Barton email: John_Barton@hpl.hp.com > http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/John_Barton/index.htm > MS 1U-17 Hewlett-Packard Labs > 1501 Page Mill Road phone: (650)-236-2888 > Palo Alto CA 94304-1126 FAX: (650)-857-5100 Cheers, Stuart
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