- From: John J. Barton <John_Barton@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 17:58:43 -0700
- To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>, "Henrik Frystyk Nielsen" <henrikn@microsoft.com>, "Williams, Stuart" <skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, xml-dist-app@w3.org
At 07:14 PM 5/31/2002 -0400, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote: >Joshua Allen writes: > > >> If you do a PUT on a resource and then you do a GET on > >> that same resource, the response body for the GET > >> should be the same thing that you PUT. > >I'm not so sure. <snip nice analysis by noah...> To say the same thing crudely: the Web is not a file system. The logic of a file system does not apply. 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
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