On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 12:02, Berin Loritsch wrote:
> Sylvain Wallez wrote:
> > Unico Hommes wrote:
> > 
> >
> >> Wild idea: context:/ identifies the current context, context:// 
> >> identifies the root sitemap? Like in cocoon: protocol?
> >>  
> >>
> > 
> > Great idea (again!). Currently, the "context:" protocol requires the 
> > double-slash and links to the root sitemap, so we can implement this 
> > additional behaviour with a single slash with no compatibility break. 
> > And the similarity with "cocoon:" makes it easy to understand.
> > 
> > This makes me think that "cocoon:" must also be be relative to the 
> > "current" sitemap, and not that handling the request.
> 
> BAD IDEA.
> 
> Please, you are adding contracts to the URL spec that aren't there.

Not really true. The basic structure of an URL is:

<scheme>:<scheme-specific-part>

and the interpretation of the scheme specific part depends on the
scheme.

> Instead I would highly encourage you to provide a way to set the base
> URL where relative URLs would be resolved to.
> 
> Work *with* the contract instead of extending it in non-intuitive ways.
> 
> See my rant in another email.
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