Re: Relative URI or relative URI reference

At 11:33 AM -0700 8/18/04, Roy T.Fielding wrote:


>Which would be false because there are such things as Relative URIs.
>They just aren't URIs.

This is exactly the confusion I'm militating against. The idea that 
"relative URIs" are not a subset of "URIs" is simply bad terminology 
and it needs to be fixed.  Any normal person is going to say, of 
course a relative URI is a URI.

Either let's redefine "URI" so that a relative URI is a URI or let's 
stop talking about relative URIs. The current path is just too damn 
confusing.
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