- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 14:52:22 -0700
- To: "Sam X. Sun" <ssun@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
- cc: URI distribution list <uri@Bunyip.Com>
>I might have misunderstood what URI syntax governs. So here is the question: > >Web browsers (e.g. Netscape or IE) have a edit box for user to enter their >URLs. In Netscape, it's called "Location:". In IE, it's called "Address:". >Now the question is: does the URL syntax governs how users should enter >their URL into the edit box, including the encoding used? Not unless the web browser forces it to be a URL, which none of them do. That is just a text entry dialog that accepts anything from full URI to partial domain names to free-text queries. After the browser has figured out what the string represents and has mapped it to something that resembles a URI, then the URI syntax governs what the browser needs to do to that string in order to use it within the various elements of Internet protocols that call for a URI. ....Roy
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