Re: #URIs and redirections

On 11/28/12 3:25 PM, Ted Thibodeau Jr wrote:
> But the following, which Henry initially seemed to be
> suggesting as better (though his conclusion seems otherwise)?
>
>> >-http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/knows#•
>> >-http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/mbox#•
>> >-http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person#•
>> >-http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent#•
> These URIs don't look right in Mail.app.
>
> The URI highlighting stops at the last solidus ("/"), so
> they all look like links to the same page --
> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>  -- and that is where clicking
> them takes me.
>
> (I am then redirected to the same<http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/>  
> as above -- but again, if the redirections were handled as
> I suggest above, this end result would be very wrong.)
>
> Be seeing you,
>
> Ted
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To cut a long story short, I've generated a certificate and produced a 
screenshot [1] from my keychain instance. I have a hash URI denoting the 
certificate issuer's alternative name (IAN) and a hashless URI denoting 
the certificate subject's alternative name (SAN). Clicking on the IAN 
leads to a 404 since the # was transformed into %23,  a decision out of 
my hands as the end-user i.e., a bug in keychain.

As you know, we (historically) have little interest is going around 
asking vendors to fix bugs in their products, on their on schedules 
etc.. It's utterly impractical and a complete waste of time.

Links:

1. 
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11096946/WebID/keychain-http-hash-versus-slash-uri-issue-interop-showcase.png 
-- maybe a link for the relevant section of the for and against Wiki, 
for future reference.

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