- From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:20:20 +0000
- To: "Williams, Stuart" <skw@hp.com>, uri@w3.org
At 15:02 23/02/04 +0000, Williams, Stuart wrote: >Roy et. al, > >RFC2396bis [1] Section 3.5 para 4 states: "As such, interpretation of the >fragment identifier during a retrieval action is performed solely by the >user agent; the fragment identifier is not passed to other systems during >the process of retrieval." > >Is the focus of this sentence on retrieval deliberate - ie. the spec has >nothing to say about whether or not fragment identifiers are passed to other >systems during operations other than retrieval? > >I'd have expected this prohibition to have been more universal. I'd say that the prohibition must indeed be focused on retrieval. There are other applications for which it is vital that a fragment identifier part of a URI be passed to other systems - XML namespaces and passing RDF data come to mind. #g -- >http://gbiv.com/protocols/uri/rev-2002/rfc2396bis.html ------------ Graham Klyne For email: http://www.ninebynine.org/#Contact
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