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On 2002-02-14 23:03, "ext Jonathan Borden" <jborden@a...> wrote:
> John Cowan wrote:
>> Patrick Stickler wrote:
>>
>>
>>> But is not the representation of a resource a resource? How
>>> do we then refer to both "the Eiffel Tower" and a "description
>>> of the Eiffel Tower" if they have the same URI.
>>
>>
>> Exactly my point throughout this thread.
>
> Again, the "data:" scheme is designed to do exactly this. For example
> suppose the URI:
>
> http://example.org/TheEiffelTower
>
> which when GET'd returns:
>
> "this is a description of the Eiffel Tower"
>
> and the URI (modulo escaping):
>
> "data:text/plain,this is a description of the Eiffel Tower"
This is IMO a logical error. If the URI in question really does
denote the physical object, the Eiffel Tower, then you should
get 404 as (given present non-StarTrek technology) you cannot
retrieve a physical object.
Patrick
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