On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Robert Landrum wrote:
> If all browsers followed the W3 standards the world would be a better
> place...
>
> They say "...field value consists of a single absolute URL."
> ^^^ I think
> they mean URI because the example says "absoluteURI", not URL.
>
> An absolute URI is
>
> /some/location
No, that is not an absolute URI. absoluteURI is defined unabiguously in
RFC 2068:
absoluteURI = scheme ":" *( uchar | reserved )
So, you see, an absoluteURI MUST contain the scheme.
>
> But so is
>
> http://www.somehost.com/some/location
>
> Both are valid URIs and both absolute. One is more qualified than the
> other.
No.
> A relative URI is
>
> some/location
>
> which is incorrect, and not what I meant in my message.
>
> Which brings us to the next point...
>
> By using relative *URLs* such as /some/location, you avoid changing
> the location field in the browser window, which is often desired. If
> you use an absolute *URL*, the location field changes to the absolute
> URL.
This is the desired behavior.
> You can try it with a simple perl script CGI.
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl print "Location: /some/location/\n\n";
>
> or
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl print "Location:
> http://somehost.com/some/location/\n\n";
-jwb
