Message-Id: <m0rcuJU-0007akC@grus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 95 12:19 GMT
To: fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU
Subject: Re: Base URLs
From: drtr1@cam.ac.uk (David Robinson)
It seems that I wasn't sufficiently precise with my language; what I was trying
to explain to Owen Rees what was wrong with Base: headers taking precedence
over document content.
[All you other comments are valid]
> > Why distinguish message
> > headers from other retrieval contexts?
>
>It does not. Message headers ARE the retrieval context -- the document
>is encapsulated inside the message.
But it does! You talk about retrieval context in section 3.3, but a base URL
within message headers is mentioned in section 3.2. The implication, for a
casual reader, is that message headers are not retrieval context. This is also
shown graphically, with a box between the two. Hence, as Owen Rees assumed, the
relative priority of message headers and document content was chosen
arbitrarily.
I was trying to suggest that the base URL in message headers should be
explained as simply another example of retrieval context.
David.