RE: RFC2518 (WebDAV) / RFC2396 (URI) inconsistency

> > So, you could still have "http:" and two additional 
> URI/URL/URNs for the
> > version-specific definitions of the http URL space.
> 
> Yes, but only if we defined it to be such a thing, which we 
> won't do because
> Web browsers still discard the scheme name if it is the same 
> as the scheme
> of the referring document.

What makes you think that web browsers are the only (or
even primary) agents utilizing a "scheme:" URI approach?

And what's to say that web browsers should be discarding
the scheme?

Patrick

Received on Thursday, 29 November 2001 07:25:25 UTC