• To: paul@p... (Paul Prescod)
• Subject: Re: Resource representations
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:45:22 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: joshuaa@m... (Joshua Allen), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3C69BE63.C0D09381@p...> from "Paul Prescod" at Feb 12, 2002 05:16:19 PM

> > ...  And why do you say a URI
> > would have a 404 page?  What is the 404 page for mailt:paul@p...?
> 
> I said that a resource *could* be represented by a 404 page. Not MUST
> be.

Technically, anything other than a 2xx response code indicates that the
body is *not* a representation of the resource.

See http://www.jabber.org/not-a-real-resource for an example how *not*
to do this.

MB
-- 
Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.      mbaker@p...
http://www.markbaker.ca   http://www.planetfred.com

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