• To: jschlesinger@c... (John F Schlesinger)
• Subject: Re: Generality of HTTP
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:56:38 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: msabin@i..., xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <005301c1a264$054d5cf0$0301a8c0@Desktop> from "John F Schlesinger" at Jan 21, 2002 05:11:40 AM

> Why is a picture of some bricks the same as a brick?

It isn't.  The picture is one *representation* of the bricks.

The URI identifies the resource (some bricks), and a GET returns a
representation (an image) of those bricks.

> Until we get teleportation at the macroscopic level, only information
> products (such as money) can be returned by an HTTP GET. All physical things
> can only be named by or represented by a URI.

Only information can be returned, but anything can be identified.

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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