To: uri@bunyip.com
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?