- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 13:55:37 +0100
- To: wizard@newsreports.org
- Cc: ietf-http-wg-request@w3.org, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
wizard@newsreports.org wrote: > ... > If the argument is that 3.2.2 prescribes the > semantics of the href attribute of the HTML <A> > tag, then there is a lot of broken HMTL code > out there because it quite common to use > either root relative, or relative URL's in > href attributes. The fact that common browsers > know what to do about this would be due to > their interpretative abilities. By extension, > username:password@ is also an interpretive > ability. > ... As a matter of fact, RFC2396 and the HTML spec describe what can go into an HTML href. The URL format used in HTTP messages is completely irrelevant here. And yes, of course relative URIs are allowed here. > ... Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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