- From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 16:35:08 -0500
- To: <xml-uri@w3.org>
At 16:50 2000 05 15 -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
>. . . You can absoluteize a URI
>without making any use of any dereferencing mechanism. Maybe this is what
>is not commonly understood. To dereference a relative URI is very *simple*.
^^^^^^^^^^^
>One call. minimal CPU. No other resources. Just a function.
Either I'm confused, or TBL meant to say "absolutize" instead of
"dereference" where I've highlighted it above.
By the way, the absolutization algorithm is defined by RFC 2396:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt (see mostly section 5).
paul
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