- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:48:54 PST
- To: "Geoffrey M. Clemm" <gclemm@tantalum.atria.com>
- Cc: <yarong@microsoft.com>, <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
> In this discussion, there occasionally is a shift from the term "URI" > to the term "URL" and then back. I've read RFC-2396 several times, > especially section 1.2, but it still looks to me like "URI" could have > been used consistently throughout. Since the distinction is often > made within a single paragraph (e.g. the paragraph beginning "Frankly" > below), it must have been done deliberately ... Can anyone help > me out here? A URL is a kind of URI. Normally we talk about URIs in WebDAV, because the use isn't restricted. However, there is a controversy around the use of relative links with URIs that aren't URLs. So, when talking about relative links, I slip into using "URL" instead of "URI". For the purposes of WebDAV, the two terms are interchangable. Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
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