- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:07:21 +0200
- To: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>, "HTTP Working Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:58:58 +0200, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > No, implementations do not have to, according to the spec. The spec does not matter for this. > I believe you that browsers currently do, but I'm pretty certain that > there's lots of code out there that doesn't accept relative URIs (or > malformed URIs), which would become non-compliant by this change. Pointers? > So, again, this would be an incompatible change. To make HTTP compatible with deployed Web content and actually a useful spec to implement against. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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