Question:
Thruout the following post, URL is repeatedly shown as 'URI' or some such.
The L in URL stands for Locator, and I'm wondering why all acronyms in here
show up as 'URI', even in the RFC quote.
keith whaley
David E. Ross wrote:
> On 4/2/11 5:24 AM, Ant wrote:
>> On 4/2/2011 2:08 AM PT, Jens Hatlak typed:
>>
>> What's the reasons for < and > ? They don't make sense to me.
>> What's wrong without them since most programs convert http to
>> links just fine?
> The use of < and > to delimit URIs is per Appexdix C of RFC 3986.
>
> The delimiters serve human purposes, not software. As indicated in
> another reply in this thread, they provide for URIs that wrap from one
> line to another and yet remain understandable by human eyes. (I get
> E-mail messages with URIs that wrap to 3-4 lines.)
>
> To quote the RFC:
>> URIs are often transmitted through formats that do not provide a
>> clear context for their interpretation. For example, there are many
>> occasions when a URI is included in plain text; examples include text
>> sent in email, USENET news, and on printed paper. In such cases, it
>> is important to be able to delimit the URI from the rest of the text,
>> and in particular from punctuation marks that might be mistaken for
>> part of the URI.
>
> Also while blank spaces are not supposed to appear in a URI, I do see
> such URIs. Delimiters help humans to see that the first blank space
> does not end such URIs.
>
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