- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 18:14:53 +0100
- To: Rob Cameron <cameron@cs.sfu.ca>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
Yes, the grammar issue was noted by Ray Merkert on Feb 17th.
> Perhaps the following text is appropriate.
>
> "An ABNF-driven parser will find that the border between
> authority and path is ambiguous; they are disambiguated by the
> "first-match-wins" (a.k.a. "greedy") algorithm. This produces
> correct results whenever the authority is absent or the first
> segment of the path is empty. Although the grammar permits
> a nonempty path in the presence of an authority component,
> the URI is considered ill-formed in this case."
Note that the text already says a more forceful equivalent
in section 3.3:
If a URI contains an
authority component, then the initial path segment must be empty
(i.e., the path must begin with a slash ("/") character or be
entirely empty).
Is that not sufficient?
....Roy
Received on Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:29:15 UTC