Re: ISSUE: Protection space

Roy T. Fielding (fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu)
Fri, 07 Aug 1998 14:51:06 -0700


>How about I say that URI in "domain=URI..." must be an "http_UTL" or
>"abs_path" as defined in section 3.2.2 of the HTTP/1.1 spec? 
>The former is the usual "http://www.xxx.com:port/dir/foo.html" type; the
>latter is "/dir/foo.html".

It's odd that it isn't relative to the requested resource.  Has someone
checked the implementations to see what is normally returned?

In any case, "http_URL" is too restrictive.  That should be "absoluteURI",
since it would allow for the use of HTTP with different schemes
(think http, https, ipp, ...).

....Roy