What's the difference between this and Content-Location (which I believe
Ian suggested a year or two ago)?
Best, Nathan
Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
Jonathan,
I have written the below idea up as a change proposal
http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/ChangeProposal25
The number "25" has no semantics.
Tim
On 2012-03 -25, at 12:35, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
[...] the basic idea of giving a way of the server making it
explicit that the URI identifies not the document but is subject, without the
internet round-trip time of 303,
is a useful path to go down.
If Ian Davis and co would be happy with it, how about a header
200 OK
Document: foo123476;doc=yes
which means "Actually the URI you gave is not the URI of a this document,
but the URI of this document is foo123476.html (a relative URI).
- This is the same as doing a 301 to foo123476.html and returning the same
content.
- Non-data clients will ignore it, and just show users the page anyway.
- Saves the round trip time of 301
- Avoids having the same URI for the document and its subject.
This will dismantle HTTP range-14 a bit more, but still never give the same
URI to two things. It would mean code changes to my client code and just a
reconfig
change to Ian's server.
Tim
