[foaf-protocols] what if

[Kingsley Idehen]

Nathan wrote:
> Bruno Harbulot wrote:
>   
>> On 18/07/2010 22:59, Seth Russell wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Bruno Harbulot
>>> <Bruno.Harbulot at manchester.ac.uk
>>> <mailto:Bruno.Harbulot at manchester.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi,
>>>     As an uploader of the document, you might not be able to control the
>>>     header.
>>>
>>>
>>> I think "the document" would need to be created by a server process and
>>> not just uploaded or FTPd.  It then is served by a process like PHP
>>> which knows that it must transmit the key in the header.
>>>       
>> Why not? What produces the representation is not the business of the 
>> client. Whether a representation was uploaded via FTP or if it's 
>> generated on-demand by a script shouldn't change anything about the 
>> architecture of the web, as far as I know.
>>
>> When we looked at signing RDF, it could have been possible to sign parts 
>> of an XML/RDF document locally with my private key and then upload it. 
>> Nothing wrong with that (apart from the fact XML Sig and XML/RDF don't 
>> work well together, but that's a different topic).
>>
>> The problem is that if we start putting things that belong to what's 
>> within the document into custom HTTP headers, where do we stop? Why not 
>> put the whole RDF/XML within a custom header, leaving the entity be in 
>> whichever format it wants... Sure that would solve the problem, that's 
>> just not what HTTP headers are for.
>>     
>
> another very valid point - well said Bruno
>   

Yes, but do note, there is a vocabulary for HTTP [1]. All worth 
revisiting at the right time :-)

Links:

1. http://www.w3.org/TR/HTTP-in-RDF10/

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