- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:37:12 -0700
- To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Cc: public-webapi@w3.org
On Oct 13, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote: > >>> * Other IRI schemes may be supported for postURL, but only if they >>> are >>> functionally equivalent to HTTP (such as itms). >> >> I am not sure what you mean by "itms" or what "functionally >> equivalent >> to HTTP" means, but this would seem to be an odd restriction; you >> don't >> have it for "getURL", and you can POST to mailto:... or news:... just >> fine, as demonstrated e.g. by libwww-perl. XMLHttpRequest also does >> not >> expose any checks, so implementations would probably need additional >> logic to ensure they don't improperly support postURL(). > > By “itms” I mean iTunes Music Store URIs, as mentioned here: > > http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/30/AppleWA > > By “functionally equivalent to HTTP” I mean “is the same as HTTP but > happens to use a different URI scheme”, which is closer to the actual > wording that would be included (“functionally equivalent” being a bit > weasely). I don't think special consideration for "itms" is necessary. This URI scheme really only exists as a way to get things to open in iTunes, and I would not expect it to be natively supported by any XMLHttpRequest implementations. Regards, Maciej
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