Re: [whatwg] URL standard: Query string parsing; host parsing from Boris Zbarsky on 2013-03-13 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from March 2013)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:24:47 -0400
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Message-ID: <5140E08F.4060107@mit.edu>

On 3/13/13 4:23 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Under RFC 3986, it would resolve to
>
>    jar:http://example.com/Bar.class

If you assume that this is a hierarchical scheme and that the hierarchy 
is in some particular place, no?  Why is that assumption being made?

> Looks like a broken scheme to me.

I'm not going to try to claim jar: is a wonderful thing.  It is what it 
is.  It needs to not break.

-Boris

Received on Wednesday, 13 March 2013 20:25:14 UTC