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"Hunter, David" <dhunter@m...> writes: >>> In another post on this thread, Lars Marius Garshol asked if the >>> following two URLs denote the same resource: [search engine example] > But in this case the search engine isn't treating them as "the same > thing"; I read this argument from the viewpoint that we were discussing the objects referenced by URLs, and not the URLs themselves. Were I mistaken? The URLs are *obviously* not identical if they are not the same, letter by letter (possibly except leading and trailing whitespace). > But to the web server itself, i.e. a.server.com, there really would never be > such a "thing" as "page.asp?param1=5¶m2=6"; there would only be a > "page.asp", and anything else is just a parameter to the one > "thing". You cannot know that from the outside, and it's just a pesky implementation detail. But you raise an interesting point, because a cgi with the same parameters isn't guaranteed to return the same result (e.g. page hit counters). Are they still the same object? Basically, I think this calls for a requirement that all CGIs and ASPs and what not be side-effect free. -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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