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Re: URIs harmful

• To: <ktl@k...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: URIs harmful
• From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@a...>
• Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:15:10 -0400
• References: <4F4182C71C1FDD4BA0937A7EB7B8B4C105DCDB1C@r...> <20020724155213.A4549@k...>

>
> 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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