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> > 3) If you do an HTTP GET on an http: URI, you should expect to get something > back (though you may not because something is broken). The thing you get > back is just a representation of the actual thing that the URI identifies; > what that actual thing is is decided by the authority creating the URI. > actually 4) If you do an HTTP GET on a http: URI you will get something back, if only an error message from the protocol handler. The thing you get back ... I do think that the use of the HTTP scheme in a URI rightly creates the expectation that something at least slightly useful will be returned on a successful dereference. The only good reason NOT to return some default representation (other than 404) for every URI under your domain, is to catch typos. In that sense a 404 can be considered, in some sense, a representation. Jonathan
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