- From: Foteos Macrides <MACRIDES@sci.wfbr.edu>
- Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 15:50:14 -0500 (EST)
- To: fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com
"Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU> wrote: >I finished all of my changes to the general URL syntax draft on Sunday. >You can find it and my test pages at > > http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/url/ > >One important thing to note is that I have changed the BNF definition >of path to include the first "/". See the last appendix for the reasons >why I changed it. This will probably require changes to the individual >scheme specifications as well, but it will make them easier to specify. >More importantly, it now matches the actual implementations and RFC 1630, >so there will probably be fewer problems with translating the spec into >implementations. >[...] What does this mean for ftp URLs? The current RFCs specify that a %2F must be included to have the first symbolic element in the field treated as actually beginning with a slash (and thus beginning at the root, rather than relative to the login directory). Fote ========================================================================= Foteos Macrides Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research MACRIDES@SCI.WFBR.EDU 222 Maple Avenue, Shrewsbury, MA 01545 =========================================================================
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