- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@ebuilt.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 20:45:25 -0700
- To: Stephen Cranefield <SCranefield@infoscience.otago.ac.nz>
- Cc: "'uri@w3.org'" <uri@w3.org>
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 02:04:36PM +1200, Stephen Cranefield wrote: > Roy Fielding wrote: > > The notion of retrieval is not in any way specific to the URI > > scheme -- there is a paragraph in RFC 2396 that says exactly > > that, regardless of whether it is a locator or a name. > > Could you identify this paragraph? I can only find paragraphs > that contradict this, e.g.: Section 1.2, third paragraph: Although many URL schemes are named after protocols, this does not imply that the only way to access the URL's resource is via the named protocol. Gateways, proxies, caches, and name resolution services might be used to access some resources, independent of the protocol of their origin, and the resolution of some URL may require the use of more than one protocol (e.g., both DNS and HTTP are typically used to access an "http" URL's resource when it can't be found in a local cache). At one time it was fairly common to access http URLs through a mail gateway and a telnet gateway at CERN. It is still common to access most other URI schemes through an http proxy. These are retrieval actions and they are no different than URN resolution and retrieval by proxy. ....Roy
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