- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:29:47 +0200
On Feb 13, 2005, at 02:37, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Furthermore, URL does not really mean anything anymore on todays web IMO, that stance is both impractical and revisionist. Quoting RFC 3986, section 1.1.3.: "A URI can be further classified as a locator, a name, or both. The term 'Uniform Resource Locator' (URL) refers to the subset of URIs that, in addition to identifying a resource, provide a means of locating the resource by describing its primary access mechanism (e.g., its network 'location')." The practical matter is that the URL subset of URIs is the subset that actually works. I think it is rather silly to talk about URIs in contexts where everyone knows that the URI needs to be dereferencable and only URLs (or only HTTP URLs) actually work. As for identifiers, character to character comparison works much better for identifier equality comparison that full-blown scheme-aware URI comparison. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://iki.fi/hsivonen/
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