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diff --git a/doc/design/external_special_remote_protocol/comment_19_89d532a5013af24f15a0d003cbfbab25._comment b/doc/design/external_special_remote_protocol/comment_19_89d532a5013af24f15a0d003cbfbab25._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1a4c180aa --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/external_special_remote_protocol/comment_19_89d532a5013af24f15a0d003cbfbab25._comment @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""re: WHEREIS -- is it better to just report failure to avoid duplicates?""" + date="2015-09-09T21:03:13Z" + content=""" +There's no point in implementing WHEREIS if it's going to reply with the +same values that are passed to SETURIPRESENT. + +Some special remotes may not need to use SETURIPRESENT to work at +all, and yet storing data on the remote makes it available from some public +url. This is the kind of situation where it makes sense to implement +WHEREIS. +"""]] |