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The day after that mail I sent the following, having reread the spec and decided that my interpretation, and memory, was faulty: "Well looking things over I think I was wrong about the spec, my understanding for the last couple years has been very molded by "Universal Resource Identifiers - Axioms of Web Architecture", http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html , the part which I felt was relevant here was from http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html#query to quote: "An important case is the treatment of the question mark in HTML forms. There is a convention that infformation returned from HTML forms is returned by encoding it and appending it to the URI. The question mark within the URI is used to separate the basic URI from parameters which are appended to it to perform an operation. A typical use is for a search, and the string following the question mark is often known as a query string. When a query string and fragment identifier are used, the function evaluated on dereferencing a URL http://foo/bar?baz#frag Is select(get( "foo", "query("bar","baz")), "frag") where * query (resource, querystring) is evaluated by the resource "bar" * "bar" is opaque to all except the server "foo" ; * "baz" is a format understood by client and by the resource "foo/bar"; * get(server, restofuri) is executed by the client engine which understands "foo" but not "bar" * select(fragmentid, resource) is evaluated on the client by the resource's handling code " That is to say that the resource and the querystring are two things that are seperate from each other, the two parameters of the function query - of which one parameter, querystring is optional. We can have a resource without a querystring. Don't really feel that we can have a querystring without a resource, unless we do some clever argumentation removed from the facts on the ground." Perhaps it is just my not wanting to throw away a viewpoint that I have grown used to, but I really feel it is more useful to think of a querystring as not being part of the resource itself, but as identifying aspects of it. And this is despite having developed applications in which the querystring quite clearly was part of the resource. Cheers, Bryan Rasmussen On 12/11/05, Tim Bray <tbray@t...> wrote: > On Dec 9, 2005, at 1:18 PM, bryan rasmussen wrote: > > >> According to RFC 3986, > >> Section 3.4: > >> > >> The query component contains non-hierarchical data that, along > >> with > >> data in the path component (Section 3.3), serves to identify a > >> resource within the scope of the URI's scheme and naming > >> authority > >> (if any).[1] > >> > >> I read that as saying that the query part participates in > >> identifying a > >> resource just as much as the path does. > >> > > No, I read that as saying the path identifies the location of the > > resource, the querystring identifies something akin to metadata of the > > resource. > > I believe you are wrong. I think that text should be read as saying > what it says, i.e. that the stuff in the query component and the > stuff in the path component together serve to identify the resource. > End of story. -Tim > >
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