- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 15:28:54 -0800
- To: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> 10.u URI
>
> The URI entity-header field is used to inform the recipient of
> other Uniform Resource Identifiers (Section 3.2) by which
> the resource can be identified.
>
> URI-header = "URI" ":" 1#( uri-mirror | uri-name )
>
> uri-mirror = "{" "mirror" <"> URI <"> "}"
> uri-name = "{" "name" <"> URI <"> "}"
>
> Any URI specified in this field can be absolute or relative to the
> Request-URI. The "mirror" form of URI refers to a location which is a
> mirror copy of the Request-URI. The "name" form refers to a
> location-independent name corresponding to the Request-URI.
>
> [##Note: According to the issues list, Roy is working on text that
> explains better what "mirror" and "name" actually mean.##]
This field will be returned to its old definition. In brief, that is
The URI entity-header field may contain a list of Uniform Resource
Identifiers (Section 3.2) which are considered equivalent to the
Request-URI, but which may be mirror locations or location-independent
names (URN) for the identified resource.
URI-header = "URI" ":" 1#( "<" URI ">" )
The details are actually more complex, but I'll get to that asap.
...Roy T. Fielding
Department of Information & Computer Science (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425 fax:+1(714)824-4056
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/
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