On 5/10/06, John Panzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does this imply that a service cannot also do content negotiation if no
preference is specified in the URI (if a "base URI" alone is used)? I don't
know.
There is a separate question lurking here: Whether or not we mandate
multiple URIs, or allow them, or ban content negotiation... is there one
resource hiding behind the URI(s) or two?
I responded to Bill on this earlier in this thread:
(http://www.imc.org/atom-protocol/mail-archive/msg05092.html)
"Does it matter? There are two URIs that have different
representations, whether or not those are the 'same' resource
is a server implementation detail and as far as I can tell
has no impact on the interop of the protocol."
Right now the spec does not forbid using the same URI for both
the media and the meta-data. I think adding language to force the
two to be different URIs would be over specification, but maybe we
need to add text that warns client implementors to carefully set their
Accept: headers?
-joe
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Joe Gregorio http://bitworking.org
