Re: What is at the end of the namespace?

> If the http URI is defined by RFC 2616 (as indicated by section 2.1.1 of
> http://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/), then section 3.2.2 of the RFC
> seems pretty clear
> 
> --- cut ---
> 3.2.2 http URL
> 
>    The "http" scheme is used to locate network resources via the HTTP
>    protocol. This section defines the scheme-specific syntax and
>    semantics for http URLs.
> 
>    http_URL = "http:" "//" host [ ":" port ] [ abs_path [ "?" query ]]
> 
>    If the port is empty or not given, port 80 is assumed. The semantics
>    are that the identified resource is located at the server listening
>    for TCP connections on that port of that host, and the Request-URI
>    for the resource is abs_path (section 5.1.2). 
> --- cut ---
> 
> I.e. there are some defined semantics that http URIs resolve to something
> located on a server?  Is the RFC wrong, or am I mis-interpretting it?

Two things are being misinterpreted:

  1) locate != retrieval of a representation

  2) is used != is only used

....Roy