- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 13:43:39 +0900
- To: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
At 22:16 02/05/27 -0500, Aaron Swartz wrote:
>On Monday, May 27, 2002, at 09:23 PM, Martin Duerst wrote:
>
>>>(in contrast to http:, where lower-case is dominant)
>
>It's not just a good idea, it's the law, no? That is, RFC2616 requires
>"http" to be in lower case and I don't see anything in RFC2396 about
>case-insensitive scheme comparison. Am I missing something?
3.1. Scheme Component
...
Scheme names consist of a sequence of characters beginning with a
lower case letter and followed by any combination of lower case
letters, digits, plus ("+"), period ("."), or hyphen ("-"). For
resiliency, programs interpreting URI should treat upper case letters
as equivalent to lower case in scheme names (e.g., allow "HTTP" as
well as "http").
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