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Since the PIDs are URLs they could be used as the href attribute in an <a> element in HTML. When requested via HTTP GET the response should be a digital object or digital surrogate. Wrinkle in this goal is that many web browsers do not respect the MIME type of responses. A digital object such as a PDF might need to have the part after the final slash end if .pdf to be interperted as a PDF file by a browser. Some browsers will attempt to open a result as a PDF file on a GET of a URL like http://resolver.org/234/b233.pdf
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