- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:30:53 -0400
- To: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 10:04:51PM -0700, Paul Prescod wrote: > No, nothing foolish about the question. I would say that one of the > defining characteristics of the Web is that it is a *web of links*. That > means that any document may refer to any other document with a URI and > there is some clear way to turn that URI into some information. So no, > I'm not defining the web in terms of HTTP. FTP also has that property. > news: also has that property. Just an observation ... FTP and Usenet did not have that property until long after they were created; URIs gave it to them. But FTP and NNTP still don't know what a URI is, whereas HTTP does. In a round about way, that's why HTTP is special. I challenge anybody to design an application protocol that knows what a URI is (not just one kind/scheme, but *any* URI), that doesn't have methods that mean the same as HTTP GET, PUT, POST, etc.. MB -- Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred) Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. distobj@acm.org http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.com
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