- From: Amelia A Lewis <alewis@tibco.com>
- Date: 09 Jul 2002 14:38:11 -0400
- To: Mike Dierken <mike@dataconcert.com>
- Cc: "'xml-dist-app@w3.org'" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 14:33, Mike Dierken wrote: > > > I disagree about URIs implying a pull model and synchronous > > > interactions. The mailto:mike@dataconcert.com URI isn't pull and it > > > isn't synchronous. > > > > Hmm. Yes. I'm wrong. But that's an awfully interesting URI. > > > > It isn't GETtable. It's non-idempotent. > > GET mailto:mike@dataconcert.com HTTP/1.1 > Host: magic.httpserver.net > User-Agent: not-your-fathers-browser > Authentication: BASIC YA4H8G== > Accept: text/xml; message/rfc822; text/plain Sorry to be stupid, but does this do anything useful? By its nature, as far as I can parse it, a mailto URL is going to indicate a state-changing, non-idempotent action, and thus isn't appropriate for a GET. For that matter, I don't quite understand how one would 'get' a mailto .... But you've produced an example, what does it mean? Amy! -- Amelia A. Lewis Architect, TIBCO/Extensibility, Inc. alewis@tibco.com
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