- From: Roy T.Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 21:20:35 -0700
- To: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
On Thursday, July 22, 2004, at 04:34 AM, Mike Brown wrote: >> From >> http://www.gbiv.com/protocols/uri/rev-2002/rfc2396bis.html#same- >> document: > > "Normalization of the base and target URIs prior to their comparison, > as > described in Section 6.2.2 and Section 6.2.3, is allowed but rarely > performed > in practice." > > So, 6.2.4 (protocol-based normalization) is not allowed? It isn't generally applicable (it can't be applied to URI references because an access is required first, and it won't be applied to the base URI because of how that URI was obtained in the first place). > And no other forms of normalization besides those described are > allowed? It doesn't say that. Do you know of any other forms of normalization? I suppose we could invent new forms, but I don't think it would have an affect on the standard. An application isn't going to perform normalization unless it accomplishes something useful. ....Roy
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