Re: Why MD5 Headers are Imperative

Eric J. Bowman wrote:
> You cannot reject, point by point, a solution on its surface when you have 
> not attempted to understand or refute the problem it solves.  I reject your 
> "-1's" on my solution until you explain to me why this is true:
>
> "The Member URI may be used to retrieve an representation of the resource, 
> period."
>
> This is where your train has gone off the tracks, I'm afraid.  Because your 
> statement assumes that there is only one possible representation of that 
> resource.  I have two, because the Atom Format specifically allows me two.

Again, you seem to be reading things in that aren't there. If the claim 
was "The Member URI may be used to retrieve *the* representation of the 
resource,  period." then I could see your point, but it isn't. The claim 
is only that Member URI may be used to retrieve some representation of 
the resource. There's no claim made here that this is the only 
representation.


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