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# HTTPResource

The basic class of all resources accessible through the HTTP protocol. As a webadmin, you shouldn't try to install an instance of an HTTPResource, since it doesn't provide any implementation of the actual HTTP methods.

## Inherits

The DirectoryResource class inherits from the following classes:

- FilteredResource

## Attributes description

The HTTPResource defines the following attributes:

- parent

`parent`

semantics
  The parent of a resource is the resource that is responsible for its loading in memory. All resources should have a parent, except for the server's root resource (whose parent is null)
type
  This attribute is a computed ObjectAttribute
default value
  This attribute defaults to the resource that loaded it into memory, as explained above.

Anselm Baird-Smith
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