Tim Bray wrote:
On Jul 16, 2005, at 1:28 PM, Sam Ruby wrote:
I didn't realize that "path-empty" was a valid URI-reference.
Yeah, it means "here".
And that's why you can't use it as a reference to your site.
To quote from RFC 3986:
When a URI reference refers to a URI that is, aside from its fragment
component (if any), identical to the base URI (Section 5.1), that
reference is called a "same-document" reference. The most frequent
examples of same-document references are relative references that are
empty or include only the number sign ("#") separator followed by a
fragment identifier.
When a same-document reference is dereferenced for a retrieval
action, the target of that reference is defined to be within the same
entity (representation, document, or message) as the reference;
therefore, a dereference should not result in a new retrieval action.
So, <link href='' /> links to the atom file (as currently in memory),
not your site.
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Sjoerd Visscher
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