Re: parsing URI (references) according to RFC 3986 from Boris Zbarsky on 2011-06-20 (public-iri@w3.org from June 2011)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:54:52 -0400
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
CC: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>, Chris Weber <chris@lookout.net>, public-iri@w3.org
Message-ID: <4DFF7B5C.6050109@mit.edu>

On 6/20/11 5:14 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> I can see that it may make sense to define a canonical form.

For what it's worth, in Gecko the #1 job of URI parsing is to _produce_ 
such a canonical form.   There's all sorts of stuff that depends on that 
being available, last I checked....

And yes, it's scheme-specific.

-Boris

Received on Monday, 20 June 2011 16:55:20 UTC