Re: How to identify existing resource in a POST(a) request

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Markus Lanthaler
<[email protected]>wrote:

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> Paul,
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> on the Web resources are identified by URIs, so that leaves us with your
> options 2 and 3. I don’t really see the problems you outline there but a
> different one. What if a system assigns multiple URLs to access the same
> resource but different representations thereof? For instance
> example.com/persons/1.json and example.com/persons/1.xml? Both return
> representations of the same resource and both would likely contain just
> those URLs in the self-link. So the right link relation to use would be
> canonical [1] and not self.
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Agree. You might want to use URNs for these canonical URIs too.

Cheers,
M