Graham wrote:
On 31 Jan 2005, at 12:43 am, Robert Sayre wrote:
How about "Make sure your id is unique from a character-by-character perspective, but also unique in the face of scheme-specific comparisons". That is, don't lean on scheme-specific comparisons to match URIs, but they don't have to be canonical either.
Yes, changing the wording to that is fine, as long as it also says processors that do scheme-specific comparison are bad.
Suppose your user is subscribed to a feed containing 1000 entries. One day, the host name is no longer capitalized. Are you going to put 1000 new, duplicate entries in front of the user?
a) http://Example.com/thing b) http://example.com/thing
a) is ok, but don't expect clients to match it to b).
"Expect a subset of clients to match b to a", surely?
Sure.
Robert Sayre
