- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 12:59:17 PDT
- To: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
> How is this for a compromise:
>
> - a feature tag is a member of the URI namespace
> - a feature tags MUST be chosen in such a way that every % in the tag
> is the start of a %HH encoding
> - tag comparison MUST be done by decoding all %HH encodings, then doing a
> case-insensitive octet-by-octet comparison.
ftp://host.dom/%2ftest%2fbar
is actually a *different* resource from
ftp://host.dom//test/bar
Defining a "feature tag equivalence relationship" which bears
no actual semantic relationship to the "URI equivalence relationship"
is "bad". Do I really need to spell out why?
Larry
Received on Thursday, 15 May 1997 13:04:17 UTC