Re: Bookmark 'stability'

On Jul 19, 2012, at 4:40 PM, Peter Williams wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Jan Algermissen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > - Should all URIs a server makes known to clients be considered
> > possible bookmarks?
> 
> Yes, absolutely! There is no way to prevent clients from remembering
> particular URIs so we must assume that all URIs might be bookmarked.
> IME, extensive use of bookmarking is required for many -- maybe even
> most -- clients that do non-trivial work.

Yes, agreed.

> In these situations what is
> bookmarked will be entirely dependent on the application that client
> is running, not on what the server thinks are the "steady states".
> 
> Bookmarkability is not a contract, though. A server may respond to
> requests of a resource with a 404 or 410 at any time for any reason
> but we must accept that doing so may break some clients. Obviously, in
> the real world resources are going to disappear.

Yeah - to hell with referential integrity :-) The key idea behind the
Web's success.

> That makes it
> incumbent upon clients to handle, as gracefully as possible, the
> situation where the bookmarked resource is no longer available.

Yep. +1

Jan




> 
> Peter
> barelyenough.org
> 



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