- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:00:56 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- cc: EF <energyflow@energyflow.com>, www-html@w3.org, uri@w3.org
>(b) I believe this request was considered and declined during the >development of the URI spec, RFC2396, though I don't have >specific pointers handy. I think libwww used to implement >it... the part about > scheme1://auth1/path1 + scheme2:/path2 = scheme2://auth1/path2 libwww only ignored the scheme if both schemes were identical. >This is the first time (I think) that it's been proposed to allow: > > scheme1://auth1/path11/path12 + scheme2:../path2 > = scheme2://auth1/path11/path2 > >In any case, I doubt you're >going to get a change to the relative URI parsing >algorithm at this stage. It's just too widely deployed. It also wouldn't make any sense to do that given that not all URI use the //hostname syntax and therefore such a notion would cause the relative URI parsing to be scheme-dependent. That would suck. ....Roy
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