RFC 1808 use of # in 'base' example

Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> Mon, 08 January 1996 07:40 UTC

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Date: Mon, 1 Jan 96 11:43:22 EST
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From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>

I should have read RFC 1808 more carefully! The presumption of

>   Within an object with a well-defined base URL of
>      Base: <URL:http://a/b/c/d;p?q#f>

makes no sense. 'An object' cannot have a Base with a fragment
identifier, since the fragment doesn't identify the object but the
fragment of an object. (That's the whole point of 'fragment'
identifiers, which is to give locations to parts of objects where the
parts don't have their own identifiers.)

RFC 1808 use of # in 'base' example Larry Masinter