- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 11:41:42 PDT
- To: D.White@mcs.surrey.ac.uk
- CC: www-talk@w3.org
Although early URL documents allowed a relative URL which supplied a 'scheme' but no 'host' (such as you'd find with http:/a/b/c/test.html), it was impossible to specify relative URL processing in a way that was scheme-independent: one could not tell whether a URL was absolute or relative without knowing the details of the URL scheme's syntax. So, currently 'http:/a/b/c' is not an allowed URL syntax. Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
Received on Wednesday, 3 September 1997 14:42:03 UTC