Re: [Uri-review] Request for review

[Timothy Mcsweeney <[e-mail]>]

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Hi Dave,


If the other six gen-delims from the reserved set were safe and valid, would you oppose their use in URIs?


Tim


> On 05/27/2020 8:05 PM Timothy Mcsweeney <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Hi Dave,
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> If the other six gen-delims from the reserved set were safe and valid, would you oppose their use in URIs?
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> Tim
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> > On May 24, 2020 at 6:08 PM Dave Thaler <[e-mail]> wrote: 
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> > Hi Tim,
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> > Correct the colon is not part of the hier-part, the hier-part is what comes after the colon. RFC 3986 says:
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> > URI = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ]
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> > Only strings that conform to the above are URIs.
> > So “drop#sd54g54” is not a URI because it does not conform to the above syntax, as it has no “:”
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> > “drop:sd54g54” on the other hand would be a valid URI.
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> > This is what folks are saying when they say if you just change the “#” to a “:” in your draft then it becomes legal.
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> > Dave
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> > From:Uri-review <[e-mail]> On Behalf OfTimothy Mcsweeney
> > Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2020 11:26 AM
> > To: Erik Wilde <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]
> > Subject: Re: [Uri-review] Request for review
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> > Hi Erik,
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> > Thank you, I will have another look at my reference to section 3.
> > Would you agree that in "https://ietf.org" the colon is not part of the hier-part?
> > > On May 24, 2020 at 12:02 PM Erik Wilde < [e-mail]> wrote:
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> > > hey tim.
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> > > On 2020-05-24 17:53, Timothy Mcsweeney wrote:
> > > > Yes, I agree and understand that the same way as you. But when the "#"
> > > > leaves the client it is not leaving as a fragment,
> > > what people are telling you is that "#" and anything following it never
> > > leaves the client, by definition.
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> > > > it is leaving as a
> > > > way to separate the URI components, <scheme> and <path> or for http it
> > > > would be separating <scheme> and <authority>. It is this that makes me
> > > > believe that even if the colon is required for http resolution, it is
> > > > not necessarily required for all URI.
> > > this discussion could be more productive if you had a brief look at the
> > > specs you're depending on. the very first rule shown in
> > > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3 (https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftools.ietf.org%2Fhtml%2Frfc3986%23section-3&data=02%7C01%7Cdthaler%40microsoft.com%7C301845b79f34417b8da108d8000ffe6c%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637259415988523425&sdata=8SdFPIQPmfPOefEYg%2Fy13BK0AMhxkW6g55TE5MAJ2pY%3D&reserved=0) is
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> > > URI = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ]
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> > > each URI is defined like this and must have a colon.
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> > > cheers,
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> > > dret.
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