Re: Idea: Authority-declared sub-syntax for URL paths

Hello Randall,

On 8/8/2011 12:56 AM, Randall Sawyer wrote:
> Hello, All!
>
> Only recently have I stumbled upon the need to parse and normalize URLs
> for a couple of projects I'm working on.  In doing my research -
> including reading all of rfc3986 and part of A. Barth's "Parsing URLs
> for Fun and Profit" - I find it frustrating the amount of effort
> required to anticipate and correct malformed URLs.  I have a suggestion
> as to how content-providers and client-developers may voluntarily make
> their services and products work better together.  [I have searched the
> archives for something like this, and have not found any so far.]
>
> What I have in mind is something comparable to SGML/XML validation.
> Just as a *ML document may contain a declaration at the top stating that
> it is compliant with a specific template, what if we made it possible
> for an organization to declare that every existent path on their site is
> compliant with a specific path-syntax template?

Did you find the URI Template specification 
<http://code.google.com/p/uri-templates/> useful?

I know there are some other ideas and IDs in concept stages attempting 
to define limited scheme-specific canonicalization in normative terms 
for implementations that want to be strict.

Best regards,
Chris Weber

Received on Friday, 12 August 2011 14:17:21 UTC