- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 17:46:40 -0500
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- CC: "Sam X. Sun" <ssun@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>, URI distribution list <uri@Bunyip.Com>
Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > >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. IETF specs rarely govern local behaviours; their target, if not their exclusive domain, is agreements *between* hosts on the internet. So when you send a URI over the wire (e.g. in an HTML document) you're bound by the URI spec. But not, necessarily, when you fidget with them locally. By analogy, when I type % ping www12 there are local conventions that turn that into www12.w3.org before doing a DNS lookup. -- Dan Connolly http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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