Re: up up up, was: Last Call: draft-nottingham-http-link-header (Web Linking) to Proposed Standard

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
> > >
> > > On the other hand, the advantage you are citing is only an advantage 
> > > if a given resource only contains "up up up", but not also "up up" 
> > > and "up". What you be the point of that?
> > 
> > A UA that treats any number of "up"s as the same would not interpret 
> > "up" as "up1", but as meaning that the referenced document was some 
> > higher- level document in the hierarchy.
> 
> Again, what would be the point of this case ("up up up" being present, 
> but not "up up" and "up")?

Why would they not be present?

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