Re: MUST use Content-Base

Jim Gettys:
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>>  From: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
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>(material elided...)
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>>  When I was rewriting the URI specification and arguing with the MHTML
>>  group, I came to the conclusion that Content-Base is not needed provided
>>  that Content-Location is implemented as specified.  The reasoning was
>>  similar to what Dave Morris mentioned: the only person capable of knowing
>>  whether or not the embedded references in a document are relative to
>>  some other namespace is the document creator, and they are better-off
>>  making that distinction within the document.  Granted, some formats may
>>  not have the equivalent of HTML's BASE, but I would argue that those
>>  formats are very unlikely to contain relative references.
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>Do others agree with Roy's analysis?  

I agree that Content-Base is not really needed.

>Is this true in the face of
>negotiated resources, where Content-Location might be used to tell you
>where the underlying version is found?

As far as I can see, the removal of Content-Base will not break any
proposed content negotiation scheme.

>				- Jim

Koen.