Re: p1: HTTP(S) URIs and fragment identifiers

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Sat, 20 April 2013 07:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: p1: HTTP(S) URIs and fragment identifiers
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On 20/04/2013, at 5:28 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 2013-04-20 06:07, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> P1 sections 2.7.1 and 2.7.2 define the HTTP and HTTPS URI schemes without fragment identifiers.
>> 
>> While it's true that HTTP sends these URIs without fragids "on the wire" in the request-target, the schemes *do* allow fragids pretty much everywhere else they're used (including some places in HTTP, e.g., the Location header).
>> 
>> Given that this is going to be the definition for these URI schemes, and we already require that the fragid be omitted in the request-target, shouldn't the syntax allow a fragment identifier?
> 
> No.
> 
> Fragment identifiers are allowed for *any* URI scheme; the scheme definition doesn't need to include it.


Then why do we include query?


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