Re: New Version Notification for draft-nottingham-uri-get-off-my-lawn-00.txt

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> I'll leave that one for the TAG et al to discuss; sniffing filename extensions is new, isn't it?

It's not new and therefore acknowledging it seems appropriate.


> The other one I'm aware of is the +web stuff in the URI scheme, but that can be taken care of with a short update to the URI scheme registration doc.

Documents that nobody uses are not an effective measure I think.


>> Simon Sapin pointed out there's also /robots.txt. And there's
>> /favicon.ico. Apple has hijacked various icon related URLs too, which
>> other vendors have copied to some extent. It seems at least
>> "/favicon.ico" and "/robots.txt" should be considered exceptions, too.
>
> Yeah, that's not standard, so not really in scope for this (although it'd be nice if others listened). Effectively, they're grandfathered in by the well-known URI spec.

"/favicon.ico" is part of HTML these days, as fallback for lacking
rel=icon. Not pointing out the well-known exceptions makes this
document less useful than it could be I think. You make it much easier
to dismiss by only caring about theory.


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