- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 00:04:56 PDT
- To: "John Stracke" <francis@netscape.com>, "Webdav" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
> However, it's not clear, at this point, > whether "going up the parent tree" is a necessary operation, # Don't base HTTP clients need it for relative links? First of all, relative URI processing is independent of the protocol. Relative links work for "ftp" and for "gopher" and for "urn" and for "vnd.blablah". Relative URI processing is entirely syntactic. It merely performs a string manipulation of a "relative URI" against a "base", without regard to any of the semantics. There is not an operation for "going up the parent tree", there is only an operation for performing relative URI processing of the ".." form. Relative URI processing is entirely under the control of the data form or context that is providing the URI in the first place; e.g., an author of a HTML document may or may not choose to provide relative links within it. Since DAV does not restrict itself to authoring HTML documents, any particular form of document at all, there is no particular reason why DAV resource processors need to deal with relative forms at all. Larry
Received on Thursday, 10 September 1998 03:05:10 UTC