Re: rules for comparing coded URL in If header? (was Xythos interop)

• From: Joe Orton <joe@orton.demon.co.uk>
• Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:28:41 +0000
• To: Jim Davis <jrd3@alum.mit.edu>
• Cc: Kevin Wiggen <wiggs@wiggenout.com>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
• Message-ID: <19991116142841.C315@ankh.dunno.local>

> I was passing a coded URL that had an explicit port (80)   Is there a rule
> about how to compare two coded URLs for identity, when one has an an
> explicit port and the other has no port (it was using the default port, in
> this case).  Perhaps in RFC 2068?

RFC2616 section 3.2.3 has it...ž "A port that is empty or not given is
equivalent to the default port for that URI-reference;"

joe

Received on Tuesday, 16 November 1999 09:39:19 UTC