- From: John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:03:14 -0500
- To: Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com>
- Cc: Liste SW-W3C <semantic-web@w3.org>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
Henry asked: > If I dereference a URL which contains a redirect to another resource, and that > resource contains relative URLs, how should the relative URLs of the returned > document be completed? With the initial URL? Or with the one given in the Location > header (or some other header?) of the last document? > > Perhaps this has been written up somewhere? Doesn't RFC 3986 <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt> speak to this? 5.1.3. Base URI from the Retrieval URI If no base URI is embedded and the representation is not encapsulated within some other entity, then, if a URI was used to retrieve the representation, that URI shall be considered the base URI. Note that if the retrieval was the result of a redirected request, the last URI used (i.e., the URI that resulted in the actual retrieval of the representation) is the base URI. -- John S. Erickson, Ph.D. Director, Web Science Operations Tetherless World Constellation (RPI) <http://tw.rpi.edu> <olyerickson@gmail.com> Twitter & Skype: olyerickson
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