Re: URI Comparisons: RFC 2616 vs. RDF

Hi Martin,

I have URI's where case is important only at the terminal identifier. (HTML
URI's in this example)

http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.html

<http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.html>should be different than

http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6N7p.html

Am I correct in thinking that this is OK?

I went with this structure so I could have short bit.ly like identifiers for
potentially millions of species.

Thanks,

- Pete

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Martin Hepp <
martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:

> Dear all:
>
> RFC 2616 [1, section 3.2.3] says that
>
> "When comparing two URIs to decide if they match or not, a client  SHOULD
> use a case-sensitive octet-by-octet comparison of the entire
>   URIs, with these exceptions:
>
>      - A port that is empty or not given is equivalent to the default
>        port for that URI-reference;
>      - Comparisons of host names MUST be case-insensitive;
>      - Comparisons of scheme names MUST be case-insensitive;
>      - An empty abs_path is equivalent to an abs_path of "/".
>
>   Characters other than those in the "reserved" and "unsafe" sets (see
>   RFC 2396 [42]) are equivalent to their ""%" HEX HEX" encoding.
>
>   For example, the following three URIs are equivalent:
>
>      http://abc.com:80/~smith/home.html
>      http://ABC.com/%7Esmith/home.html
>      http://ABC.com:/%7esmith/home.html
> "
>
> Does this also hold for identifying RDF resources
>
> a) in theory and
> b) in practice (e.g. in popular triplestores)?
>
> I did not test it yet, but I assume that not all implementations would
> treat
>
>   http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#Event
>   HTTP://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#Event
>   http://PURL.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#Event
>   http://purl.org:80/NET/c4dm/event.owl#Event
>
> as the same class.
>
> Any facts or opinions?
>
> Best
>
> Martin
>
>
> [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
>
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