Hi James, On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:15 AM, James Leigh <[email protected]> wrote: > Could this 308 (Permanent Redirect) give us a way to cache a probe URI's > definition document location? > > An issue people have with httpRange-14 is that 303 redirects can't be > cached. If we could agree to use a 308 response as a cache-able > alternative to 303, we could reduce server load and speed client URI > processing (by caching the result of a probe URI).
I'm missing how that would help, could you elaborate? The semantics of that response code is that the resource has permanently moved, that seems very different to a 303. A strict reading and application of the rules would suggest that the new URI should be considered a replacement of the original, so sameAs, rather than "a description of". L.
