- From: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:50:10 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Raphaël Troncy <Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl>
- cc: Media Fragment <public-media-fragment@w3.org>
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Raphaël Troncy wrote:
> Yves will take care of the Wiki issue right after call
Done (I think I mentionned it already, but it's always better to double
check)
> <scribe> ACTION: Yves to check the status of ';' in a URI [recorded
> in [17]http://www.w3.org/2008/10/08-mediafrag-minutes.html#action04]
From RFC3986:
<<<
Aside from dot-segments in hierarchical paths, a path segment is
considered opaque by the generic syntax. URI producing applications
often use the reserved characters allowed in a segment to delimit
scheme-specific or dereference-handler-specific subcomponents. For
example, the semicolon (";") and equals ("=") reserved characters are
often used to delimit parameters and parameter values applicable to
that segment. The comma (",") reserved character is often used for
similar purposes. For example, one URI producer might use a segment
such as "name;v=1.1" to indicate a reference to version 1.1 of
"name", whereas another might use a segment such as "name,1.1" to
indicate the same. Parameter types may be defined by scheme-specific
semantics, but in most cases the syntax of a parameter is specific to
the implementation of the URI's dereferencing algorithm.
>>>
So it means that http://example.com/what;date=1234/test is different from
http://example.com/what;date=5678/test , pretty much like when using '?'
as opposed to '#'.
--
Baroula que barouleras, au tiéu toujou t'entourneras.
~~Yves
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