On 3/25/13 5:18 AM, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ wrote:
Excerpts from Pat Hayes's message of 2013-03-25 04:12:37 +0000:
On Mar 24, 2013, at 12:39 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:

All,

Here is a key HTTP enhancement from Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): 
Semantics and Content note from IETF [1].

"
   4.  If the response has a Content-Location header field and its
       field-value is a reference to a URI different from the effective
       request URI, then the sender asserts that the payload is a
       representation of the resource identified by the Content-Location
       field-value.  However, such an assertion cannot be trusted unless
       it can be verified by other means (not defined by HTTP).
"


Implications:

This means that when hashless (aka. slash) HTTP URIs are used to denote entities, a client 
can use value from the Content-Location response header to distinguish a URI that denote an 
Entity Description Document (Descriptor) distinct from the URI of the Entity Described by 
said document. Thus, if a client de-references the URI 
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Barack_Obama> and it gets a 200 OK from the server 
combined with <http://dbpedia.org/page/Barack_Obama> in the Content-Location response 
header, the client (user agent) can infer the following:
I think not quite exactly as you describe it:

1. <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Barack_Obama> denotes the real-world entity 
'Barack Obama' .
2. <http://dbpedia.org/page/Barack_Obama> denotes the Web Document that 
describes real-world entity 'Barack Obama' -- by virtue of the fact that the server 
has explicitly *identified* said resource via the Content-Location header .
I think in fact all it can infer is

1. <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Barack_Obama> denotes an entity, and
2. <http://dbpedia.org/page/Barack_Obama> denotes the Web Document that 
describes that entity.
sounds to me like enough to connect WebID and WebID profile but it will still 
take second request to get that profile, just like 303 pattern... apologies if 
I miss something!
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/#the-webid-profile




Yes, this enables us bury the hashless HTTP URI distraction that still swirls around WebID. It also enables looser coupling between a denoted entity and its profile document.

This is all about a standardized heuristic for killing off the concerns about 303 re. hashless HTTP URIs.

--

Regards,

Kingsley Idehen 
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