Re: Fixed base

"David G. Durand" wrote:

> That would be bug, though, as the RFC is quite clear about that case.

How's that again?

A base URI is necessarily absolute (section 5.1), and an absolute URI
necessarily contains a scheme (BNF), so the empty string cannot be
a base URI.  I see no indication that the resolution algorithm is
meant to work when the base URI is syntactically invalid.

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Received on Tuesday, 20 June 2000 15:39:26 UTC