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Re: no parameter in first segment of relative URI?

From: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:52:26 +0100
To: uri@w3.org
Message-Id: <200210111552.26865.miles@milessabin.com> 

Stefan Eissing wrote,
> Exactly my concern. If ':' is allowed in path segments, a URI like
>
> http://example.com/my:car.html
>
> is a valid http URI. My (imaginary) HTML editor now
> creates relative URIs whenever it can and generates:
>
> http://example.com/index.html as
>
> <html>
>   <body>
>     <a href="my:car.html">my beautiful black toyota</a>
>   </body>
> </html>
>
> Oops.

Err ... then your editor is broken: that's not a correct relativisation 
of the URI.

Cheers,


Miles
Received on Friday, 11 October 2002 10:53:03 UTC

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