- From: Daniel R. Tobias <dan@tobias.name>
- Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 09:58:36 -0400
- To: uri@w3.org
On 2 Oct 2003 at 15:15, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > No, it doesn't. I recommend investing a little time figuring out the > numerous ways in which browsers can be configured to use proxies, not > just by scheme but by entire URI prefix, via both manual and automatic > configuration methods. One might be able to do this with a sufficiently configurable browser or proxy, but doing it would turn it into a non-standards-compliant browser, as it wouldn't be following the HTTP protocol in accordance with the applicable RFCs. And, practically speaking, I wouldn't want my browser to alter the meaning of some HTTP URIs; when I enter "http://www.example.net/" in my address bar, I do it because I want to access whatever is at the named server, and don't want this "second guessed" into a reference to something else, even if that might have some relevance. If I want the "something else", I want to have a unique URI that can be used to reference it. -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/
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