# what good is a URL without type information?

Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Sat, 23 Oct 1993 03:28:29 PDT

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    Subject: what good is a URL without type information?

    From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>

    Message-Id: <93Oct23.032838pdt.2795@golden.parc.xerox.com>

    Date: 	Sat, 23 Oct 1993 03:28:29 PDT

I can imagine doing without everything else that's been categorized as
meta-information except for the type information. The type of a data
object seems necessary to do even the most minimal interpretation.

I hear that people want to make a 'location' pure by leaving out the
type information, (and then change WWW to 'start passing
metainformation around along with the URL) but then, what applications
*would* use URLs all by themselves?

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