type=<typecode> redux

Bill.Melvin@esc.edu
Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:34:19 -0500


Hi all,

slightly OT here but does this

> Extensive testing of current client applications demonstrated that
> the majority of deployed systems do not use the ";" character to
> indicate trailing parameter information, and that the presence of a
> semicolon in a path segment does not affect the relative parsing of
> that segment.  Therefore, parameters have been removed as a separate
> component and may now appear in any path segment.  Their influence
> has been removed from the algorithm for resolving a relative URI
> reference.  The resolution examples in Appendix C have been modified
> to reflect this change.

from RFC2396 mean that "type=<typecode>" has gone away or that it
can appear in any path segment? And what is the LWP/URI reading of
2396 re ;parameters? Hrmmm ....

/Bill