- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@ebuilt.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:24:44 -0800
- To: Andy Powell <a.powell@ukoln.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, Patrick Stickler <Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com>, www-talk@w3.org, uri@w3.org
> If the http URI is defined by RFC 2616 (as indicated by section 2.1.1 of > http://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/), then section 3.2.2 of the RFC > seems pretty clear > > --- cut --- > 3.2.2 http URL > > The "http" scheme is used to locate network resources via the HTTP > protocol. This section defines the scheme-specific syntax and > semantics for http URLs. > > http_URL = "http:" "//" host [ ":" port ] [ abs_path [ "?" query ]] > > If the port is empty or not given, port 80 is assumed. The semantics > are that the identified resource is located at the server listening > for TCP connections on that port of that host, and the Request-URI > for the resource is abs_path (section 5.1.2). > --- cut --- > > I.e. there are some defined semantics that http URIs resolve to something > located on a server? Is the RFC wrong, or am I mis-interpretting it? Two things are being misinterpreted: 1) locate != retrieval of a representation 2) is used != is only used ....Roy
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