This is very cool. "HTTP authentication does not provide an easy way of logging out. This is actually a browser bug, however with no active development from...
... I played with doing similar things in ASP some time ago (the code, if it exists at all, is on a hard drive in the hands of the receiver handling the demise...
The more I think about this the more I'm unhappy with the idea of varying content per user. If two pieces of information have different permissions relating to...
... Consider a '/MyHome' resource that is, admittedly, just a shortcut to '/Home/me', but is still useful, just like ~/ is useful in shells. ... What about...
http://www.bengoodger.com/weblog/archives/week_2004_03_28.shtml#000577 In this weblog post, Ben Goodger, the main developer of Mozilla Firefox, describes how...
... I might be totally off track here, but.... what about invoking GET/HEAD on the URLs of the extensions and checking the Last-Modified header? I assume GET...
... This is what I refer to earlier as "limited-view". I contrasted this to "full-view-with-errors" which is where you give all users all the controls and then...
... Examining the spec indicates that if a document() gets a 401 it could either lose or return the empty nodeset: "If there is an error retrieving the...
Jon:The xsl:fallback should be able to catch the 401 errors. If the CGI produces a XHTML error form then it can be used by both users and processes. Here is a...
... Right, and this is my point: varying content by user/role is, I think, a valid thing to do. In fact, arguably putting the userid in the querystring is a...
... That's what I thought when I started down the same route recently. When it failed to work I re-read the spec and it appears tht xsl:fallback only catches ...
Internet explorer has a well known limitation on URI length (try creating a GET for with more than a few fields and you'll see it fail silently). Maybe they...
Lots of caching and other intermediary vendors have introduced their own control mechanisms, including headers. A few links that might be of interest; ...
I'd like to know if there are any tools out there that will check HTTP requests and responses for standards compliance. At the basic level, it would check a...
Hmm. Consider: <http://example.org/countries/Canada> vs. <http://www.example.org/countries/Canada> Syntactically different authorities (even though "really"...
... To clarify: please assume 'knowingly different authorities' for the purpose of my question. Jan P.S. Hmm...can it be known at all if two URIs are...
... Sure. There's nothing stopping any string from identifying anything in particular. Nor is there any relationship between the authority for a URI, and the...
... Mark, Bryan, thanks for your clarifications. One more question though: Given http://some.org/countries/Canada owl:sameAs http://another.org/canada is it...
... Ooops, I didn't mean to imply that when this came up on RDF-IG. The RDF triple <http://some.org/countries/Canada> <owl:sameAs> <http://another.org/canada>...
Hi, If I recall correctly, REST says that a resource *is* a membership function, mapping from time to representations. Therefore, if you have the same...
Jon Hanna mentioned an RDF/OWL vocabulary to describe HTTP resources. I know others of you are already using RDF and HTTP together (Mark Baker, I'm looking at...
[ Hmm, I just found this in the archives. Not sure why it didn't arrive in my inbox ] Hi, Matt Garland wrote; ... No, I'm describing the state. ... Yes. ... ...
... Yes. I'm of the opinion that the main reason we use the word "resource" rather than the word "thing" is that using the former makes us seem a bit smarter...
... Roy's definition of resource: More precisely, a resource R is a temporally varying membership function M_R(t), which for time t maps to a set of entities,...
... That's my definition for a resource within a REST-based information system. That is because such a system creates an interface that causes that mapping to...
