Externalizing the 303 feature is the good idea, imo. But such a service should also handle the content negociation feature. So the 303 may redirect to different URLs depending on the content negociated. This makes the service more complex internally but provides a very relevant service for RDF publishers (i.e they just have to take care of one config on their server : mime-types). Plus managing the redirect is as easy as changing the xml:base of their RDF/XML.
On Wednesday, July 8, 2009, David Booth <da...@dbooth.org> wrote: > On Wed 08/07/09 5:08 PM , Olivier Rossel olivier.ros...@gmail.com sent: >> Do you mean that all deferencable URIs of a RDF document should have >> their domain name to end with t-d-b.org, so their resolution leads to >> the TDB server which redirects to the final location? > > No, I'm not suggesting that *all* deferenceable RDF URIs should use > t-d-b..org. I'm just pointing out that it is an alternative if you cannot > configure your own server to do 303 redirects. Using it does require putting > "http://t-d-b.org?" at the beginning of your URI, so if you do not want to do > that then you should use a different approach. To be clear, if you use this > approach, then instead of writing a URI such as > > http://example/mydata.rdf > > you would write it as > > http://t-d-b.org?http://example/mydata.rdf > > and if that URI is dereferenced, the 303-redirect service will automatically > return a 303 redirect to > > http://example/mydata.rdf > > David Booth > >> >> On Wednesday, July 8, 2009, David Booth <da...@dbooth >> .org> wrote:> On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 15:50 +0100, >> Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:> [ . . . ] >> >> ok, the solutions proposed here (by myself >> and others) still involve>> editing the .htaccess. >> > >> > Once again, use of a 303-redirect service such >> as> http://thing-described-by.org/ or >> http://t-d-b.org/> does not require *any* configuration or >> .htaccess editing. It does not> address the problem of setting the content >> type >> correctly, but it *does*> provide an easy way to generate 303 redirects, >> in conformance with "Cool> URIs for the Semantic Web": >> > http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/#r303gendocument> >> > Hmm, I thought the use of a 303-redirect service >> was mentioned in "Cool> URIs for the Semantic Web", but in looking >> back, I see it was in "Best> Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF >> Vocabularies":> http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-vocab-pub/#redirect >> > Maybe it should be mentioned in a future version >> of the Cool URIs> document as well. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > David Booth, Ph.D. >> > Cleveland Clinic (contractor) >> > >> > Opinions expressed herein are those of the >> author and do not necessarily> reflect those of Cleveland Clinic. >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >