- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:36:05 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "Nikunj R. Mehta" <nikunj.mehta@oracle.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Julian Reschke wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > ... > > > I provided this in several prior emails and repeating again for your > > > benefit. This is from step 2 of "fetching resources" > > > > > > [[ > > > address of the resource from which Request-URIs are obtained > > > ]] > > > > That's a term from the HTTP spec. I agree that it's a misuse of the > > terminology, but since HTTP is an RFC, there's no good way to do a > > cross-reference into the spec, so I can't really do anything but just quote > > the term to which this spec is to refer verbatim. > > ... > > What do you mean by "there's no good way to do a cross reference"? How about > something like > > Section 5.1.2 of [RFC2616] > > (assuming you want Request-URI)? That wouldn't be a version-independent reference. (What HTML5 is referencing here is "the address of the resource from which the Request-URI was obtained", a term from RFC 2616's 14.36 Referer section. If it was an HTML spec, I could just like straight to the ID of the term, but at best I can give the section number and name, which is very brittle.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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