Location-based Addressing

Let's say that I and my friend mike have the same picture of Optimus prime in our servers which can be accessed via

Mine: https://www.akilan.com/page/about/optimus.png

Mike: https://www.mike.com/page/about/optimus.png

The URLs are just the path to the file ( Prime's pic ) on the server. If you are interested in the file, you can access it and not bothered about where it comes from.

Why Location-based addressing is not great?

• Today my servers are down so, my users will not be able to access the file even if the file is present in the internet.
• This is simply because the URLs are just focused on the particular file in the specified path in my server only.
• The URL also exposes the owner of the resource. This allows authority to bring down the service on command.

What could be the alternative?

This is where Content-based addressing comes into play....

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