href element interpretation

• From: Tim Ellison OTT <Tim_Ellison@oti.com>
• Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 11:51:04 -0400
• To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org (w3c-dist-auth)
• Message-ID: <1999Oct07.114800.1250.1345137@otismtp.ott.oti.com>

Please can someone confirm that when a server responds with an <href> 
element (RFC2518 section 12.3) containing a relative URI, the base URI will 
always be the retrieval URI (RFC 2396 section 5.1.3) (i.e. the Request-URI).

All the examples in RFC2518 seem to return absolute-URIs.

Thanks
Tim

Received on Thursday, 7 October 1999 11:52:32 UTC