- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
 - Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:51:43 -0500 (EST)
 - To: stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de (Stefan Eissing)
 - Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org (WebDAV), uri@w3.org
 
> Unfortunately, "DAV:" is no legal URI reference either. RFC 2396 > explicitly forbids ':' in relative path's first segment... Darn, I thought I checked this. I assume the reason for this is to allow disambiguation between absolute and relative URI references. But, "dav:" isn't a valid URI reference of any kind, so what if we <holds-breath/> updated 2396 to allow ":" as the last character of the relative path's first segment? Would that break anything? A change to 2396 is obviously a serious thing, but so is not breaking WebDAV, despite its quirkiness wrt namespaces. MB -- Mark Baker, CSO, Planetfred. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com
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