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• Subject: Re: Re: Why REST? (RE: WSIO- With Name)
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:42:54 -0500
• In-reply-to: <200202121806.NAA23065@m...>
• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
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On Tuesday 12 February 2002 01:06 pm, Mark Baker wrote:
> Thought why he wouldn't want it to identify himself, rather than an
> HTML page is a different question.  Certainly just *because* the GET
> returns an HTML when you ask it for that (all browsers ask for
> text/html), doesn't mean that the URI identifies the HTML.  HTML is
> one *representation* of the resource, not necessarily the resource
> itself.

Not everyone subscribes to this view. Most people would be very 
surprised if /mark-baker.jpg sent them an mp3 of a cricket match. 

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