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Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: > > I hope you see the point here though.... there is *no* reliable way to > send a URI to a specific resource representation as the web would > exist in a world of purely abstract URI's. To my mind, that is BAD > (Broken As Designed). Abstract URI's are a powerful thing, but they > shouldn't/cannot be the *only* thing.... (maybe that's why we used to > have URL, URI, URN?) > I am failing to see the issue. The "data:" URI scheme is intended to represent some literal string of characters e.g. "data:text/xml;<this>is an exampke</this>" but moreover, we have URIs _and_ MIME messages. Do we need more? Jonathan
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