- From: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:24:51 -0800
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: webdav WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
According to the 3986 BNF, I can't see how the beginning "//" doesn't
indicate that the following string, up to the next "/" isn't an
authority.
relative-part = "//" authority path-abempty
/ path-absolute
/ path-noscheme
/ path-empty
<http://rfc.net/rfc3986.html#s4.2.>
Lisa
On Jan 28, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> Lisa Dusseault wrote:
>
>> So would a relative reference of the form "//example.com/sample/"
>> be legal in our URL values (href, Destination, If)? Or do we
>> further restrict relative references?
>>
>
> Syntactically it may be valid, but "example.com" then would be a
> path segment, not the authority.
>
> Best regards, Julian
>
>
Received on Saturday, 28 January 2006 19:25:09 UTC