Date: Wed, 24 Aug 94 16:39:35 +0100
From: Tim Berners-Lee <tbl@www0.cern.ch>
Message-Id: <9408241539.AA00504@ptpc00.cern.ch>
To: miked@CERF.NET (Michael A. Dolan)
Subject: Re: 'relative URLs', status
> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 10:20:05 -0700
> To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@simplon.ICS.UCI.EDU>
> One area that was somewhat vague was what happens when there appears to
> be a relative URL, but the scheme is different. For example, if the
> base is <http://host/path> and you run into <ftp:path> what should
> happen ?
If there is a scheme: then it is not a relative URL.
Relative URLs can't have schemes. Period.
Relative URLs are formed by stripping off continguous things in common
starting at the left -- more or less
Tim