Re: Are *relative* URIs as namespace nemes considered harmful?

Al Gilman wrote:

>  The scope that will be searched for the
> object named ./abc will vary with the access method or path used initially
> to access the file.

Technically, used initially to *specify* the resource, whether it was actually
used for access or not.  (A smart client could notice that an ftp:
URL was local and go directly to the file system, though AFAIK none do.)

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