- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 18:49:32 +0900
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de (Stefan Eissing)
- Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org (WebDAV), uri@w3.org
At 09:51 01/11/22 -0500, Mark Baker wrote: > > Unfortunately, "DAV:" is no legal URI reference either. RFC 2396 > > explicitly forbids ':' in relative path's first segment... > >Darn, I thought I checked this. I assume the reason for this is to >allow disambiguation between absolute and relative URI references. >But, "dav:" isn't a valid URI reference of any kind, so what if we ><holds-breath/> updated 2396 to allow ":" as the last character of >the relative path's first segment? Would that break anything? In terms of specs, probably not. In terms of implementations, we would have to test quite a few to be able to claim that all (or a sufficiently large subset of) current implementations already process foo: relative. Regards, Martin.
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