- From: Rob Cameron <cameron@cs.sfu.ca>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:16:46 -0800 (PST)
- To: uri@w3.org
Does anyone know if the following idea has been explored? Many browsers that encounter URIs with unknown schemes will (incorrectly, I think) treat them as relative URLs. Often this will give the server that served the document containing the URI a chance to respond constructively to the error. Indeed, server software could be written to detect this case generically and dispatch to appropriate remedy URLs for the scheme. For example, with our work on the "bibp:" scheme, we find that some clients are hitting our server with "URLs" like http://usin.org/bibp:.... We will be using Apache rewrite rules to provide an appropriate response (soon). But to deploy this error handling on other servers would require these rules to be manually configured in each case. If Apache had a generic support facility for unknown schemes, the deployment of new schemes could be simplified considerably. My questions for the URI WG are this: (1) Does anyone know of work in this area? (2) If not, would work in this area be welcome? (3) If so, what issues need to be addressed? Robert D. Cameron Professor of Computing Science Associate Dean of Appliend Sciences Simon Fraser University
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