Re: still one smiley glitch

[Greg Thompson <gregt@visix.com>]

>"RP" == Richard Pieri <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu> writes:

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>>>>> "PA" == Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

  PA> I meant the root of the current http server, i.e. local compared to
  PA> the current document) .  Like this

  RP> You mean a relative document reference.  Those are properly set
  RP> up like this:

  RP> for an absolute local reference:
  RP> <a href="/home/ratinox/Bookmarks.html">...</a>
  RP> and for a relative local reference:
  RP> <a href="Bookmarks.html">...</a>

  RP> with no lookup type.

  RP> Neither of these are valid URLs, though they are valid HTML.
  RP> URLs are unambiguous, human-readable addresses.  A valid URL has
  RP> this format:

  RP> 	The URL specifier "<URL" at the beginning of the line
  RP> 	The type of lookup
  RP> 	The colon-slash-slash delimiter
  RP> 	A host name (should be fully qualified)
  RP> 		Optionally a colon and port number
  RP> 	A slash delimiter
  RP> 		Optionally a directory path or path to file.  If a
  RP> 		directory then there must be a trailing slash.
  RP> 	The URL closure ">" and nothing else on the line.

this is not true.  <URL:> has nothing to do with proper url syntax.
it has become common convention when embedding a url in a piece of
mail or something, but a url does not need that stuff around it.  it
sounds like you are describing a convention for putting a url in a
message, not the proper syntax of a url.
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