Re: [webfinger] Absolute URI vs URI

[Melvin Carvalho <[e-mail]>]

On 24 July 2013 19:19, John Bradley <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Relative URI are not useful without a base to be relative to.  Unless we
> say how to determine the base of a relative URI they should not be allowed.
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> I an imagine several ways to determine a base but without specifying it
> applications will not behave consistently.   The JRD is not a HTML document.
>

Sure.  I wasnt trying to imply the JRD was the same as an HTML document.
Relative URIs, can be used in many contexts such as html/json/xml do indeed
require a base.  I think the following text from RFC 3986, "5.1.
Establishing a Base URI" would be relevant here, and it's referred to by
JSON LD too

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-5.1


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> John B.
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> On 2013-07-24, at 12:58 PM, Melvin Carvalho <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
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> On 22 July 2013 16:10, Paul E. Jones <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> Melvin,****
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>> It’s easy enough to replace strings in URIs should data need to be
>> ported.  I suggest we remove the word “absolute” where we currently have
>> “absolute URI” and then introduce a new paragraph in the terminology
>> section as follows:****
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>> The use of URIs throughout this document refers to URIs following the
>> syntax specified in Section 3 of RFC 3986.  Relative URIs, having syntax
>> following that of Section 4.2 or RFC 3986, are not used with WebFinger.**
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>> Is that clear?
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> Hi Paul, currently "Absolute URI" occurs only in section 4.4 (ie the
> description of JRD).  Certainly I think the 'absolute' should be removed in
> section 4.4.
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> The RFC in essence describes two things,
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> 1. the webfinger protocol
> 2. the JRD definition
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> This restriction on relative URIs applies to (2), rather than, the whole
> document, but as it happens that turns out to be the same thing
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> Side note: in other situations I like relative URIs because they can be
> moved from one location to another in a non-breaking way.  Say I have
> /about/ /photos/ /blog/ at one location, I can move them to another without
> having to worry too much.  Therefore, if JRD was ever used in a context
> outside of webfinger, that would be a slight advantage.
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>> Paul****
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>> *From:* Melvin Carvalho [mailto:[e-mail]]
>> *Sent:* Monday, July 22, 2013 4:09 AM
>> *To:* Paul E. Jones
>> *Cc:* webfinger
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>> *Subject:* Re: [webfinger] Absolute URI vs URI****
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>> On 22 July 2013 09:06, Paul E. Jones <[e-mail]> wrote:****
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>> In not suggesting we use or allow relative URIs. The immediate question
>> would be "relative to what". I think the URIs should be absolute, but not
>> following the syntax of "absolute-URI", but instead just following "URI".
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>> Yes, that's a good question.  Generally relative URIs are relative to the
>> document, but they need not be.  For example they could be relative by
>> default to the [supposed] webfinger registry.  In JSON LD they have a
>> @context variable which allows quite a bit of flexibility in this regard.
>> I'm unsure if relative URIs are considered a must in standards based
>> serialization (I suspect not) but they have the advantage of slightly
>> increased data portability.****
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>> Paul****
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>> *From:* Melvin Carvalho <[e-mail]>
>> *Sent:* Mon Jul 22 02:46:25 EDT 2013****
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>> *To:* "Paul E. Jones" <[e-mail]>****
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>> *Cc:* webfinger <[e-mail]>****
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>> *Subject:* Re: [webfinger] Absolute URI vs URI****
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>> On 22 July 2013 07:47, Paul E. Jones <[e-mail]> wrote:****
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>> Folks,
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>> One of the requirements in the JRD spec is that certain URIs (e.g., those
>> identifying link relation types and properties) be "absolute URIs".  This
>> term has been a point of confusion, since RFC 3986 uses the term to have a
>> concrete meaning, namely this:
>>
>>      absolute-URI  = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ]
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>> And the term is used, because that's the term used in the OASIS XRD
>> specification.  However, it was not clear to me whether that referred to
>> the
>> above (which I assumed) or referred to URIs that are not relative URIs
>> (i.e., those lacking a scheme specified).
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>> I had an exchange with Eran Hammer and Mark Nottingham.  I believe the
>> intent of that language was not to require the above constrained syntax,
>> but to require the standard URI syntax:
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>>      URI = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ]****
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>> There are many ways that people do this, see:
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>> http://tantek.com/2011/238/b1/many-ways-slice-url-name-pieces****
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>>  ****
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>> Given that understanding, I believe we should remove the word "absolute"
>> that appears in front of "URI" in the WebFinger spec.  Do others have an
>> opinion on this?****
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>> +1 on allowing relative URIs****
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>> Paul
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