Re: canonical form and scheme-specific processing rules for URI/IRI spec

• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
• Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:20:07 +0200
• To: Chris Weber <chris@lookout.net>
• CC: "PUBLIC-IRI@W3.ORG" <PUBLIC-IRI@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <4E0B1877.5050005@gmx.de>

On 2011-06-29 07:04, Chris Weber wrote:
> It was brought up here
> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-iri/2011Jun/0085.html> that
> defining a canonical form in the URI/IRI spec would make sense and be
> useful. Also, that the definition should include scheme-specific rules
> for a finite list of scheme types.
> ...

First of all I'd like to understand...

How is "canonicalization" different from "normalization", as defined in 
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc3986.html#rfc.section.6> and 
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3987#section-5>?

Also, is there really a "single" type of canonicalization browsers need? 
Where is it used?

- same-origin checks?
- same-document checks?
- ...more?

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 29 June 2011 12:20:37 UTC