Re: URL work in HTML 5

On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 2012-10-15 11:08, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Darrel Miller <darrel@tavis.ca> wrote:
> > > When you say "everywhere", are you also including URIs used in media types
> > > like text/uri-list, collection+json, hal+json, RDF/XML, VoiceXML ? Or are
> > > you just interested in defining the behaviour of web browsers?
> > 
> > There was this case on the HTTP mailing list a while back:
> > 
> >    Location: /hello world
> > 
> > 1. It's invalid because Location does not allow relative references.
> 
> It does in HTTPbis.
> 
> > 2. It's invalid because relative references cannot contain a space.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Non-browsers also handle this case however (test it in curl for
> > instance), because that is how these things work. They leak.
> 
> That is true; but it doesn't necessarily follow they should be made 
> conforming (and yes, I know you didn't say that).

Indeed I'm pretty sure everyone agrees that spaces in URLs shouldn't be 
conforming... that doesn't really seem relevant to the discussion.

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