- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 14:41:54 +0700
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 23:03 29/05/97 BST, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >Have you looked carefully at RFC 1738 lately (URLs)? >2) There's not much there about relative references, is there :-( That's covered by RFC 1808. > >3) Unless I can't decode their semi-bnf correctly, the syntax we all >use for file URLs is actually bogus, namely > >file:/home/ht/mymasterpiece.xml This is effectively a relative URL that includes a scheme name. RFC 1808 mentions this case: Finally, some older parsers allow the scheme name to be present in a relative URL if it is the same as the base URL scheme. This is considered to be a loophole in prior specifications of partial URLs [1] and should be avoided by future parsers. >4) Is > >/home/ht/mymasterpiece.xml > >a valid relative URL if the base is a file? Yes. See RFC 1808. James
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