ISSUE-88: REJECTED: Ontology header request, optional md5 checksum of ontology
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REJECTED: Ontology header request, optional md5 checksum of ontology
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- Raised by:
- Alan Ruttenberg
- Opened on:
- 2007-12-06
- Description:
- To allow tools to be able to notice that an ontology on the web has not changed after reading just a little of it and instead use a local file version (or some preprocessed version of same).
- Related Actions Items:
- No related actions
- Related emails:
- Re: ISSUE-88 (md5): Ontology header request, optional md5 checksum of ontology (from alanruttenberg@gmail.com on 2007-12-06)
- Re: ISSUE-88 (md5): Ontology header request, optional md5 checksum of ontology (from hendler@cs.rpi.edu on 2007-12-06)
- ISSUE-88 (md5): Ontology header request, optional md5 checksum of ontology (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2007-12-06)
Related notes:
I'm not sure that this is even possible. The checksum info will be within the ontology, so how can the checksum be computed without knowing what the checksum is.
I believe that this is much better handled by checking modification dates, etc., etc.
Reported in error.
Ian Horrocks, 13 Dec 2007, 15:08:16Display change log
