To: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
Subject: Re: Vetting rules for UR* schemes
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Nov 1995 23:30:11 +0100."
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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 19:45:36 -0800
From: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Message-Id: <9511281945.aa24567@paris.ics.uci.edu>
> here's what I added.
> Do you think it is clear enough?
>
> Harald
>
> <h2>Is it relative-URL compatible?</h2>
> Many applications know and love relative URLs. Therefore, the
> following questions must be asked:
> <ul>
> <li> Can it be parsed according to RFC 1808 - that is, if the tokens
> "//", "/", ";", "?" and "#" are used, do they have the meaning
> given in RFC 1808?
> <li> Does it make sense to use it in relative URLs like those RFC
> 1808 specifies?
The above is quite clear. I don't understand this last one:
> <li> Are there ways of using pieces of the information inside it
> that implementations are supposed to get right?
....Roy