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Re: Request: URN support in browsers needed!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon P. Knight)
Sat Oct 22 12:41:05 1994
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 1994 17:39:22 +0100
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From: "Jon P. Knight" <J.P.Knight@lut.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
On Fri, 21 Oct 1994, Daniel W. Connolly wrote:
> Then suppose the resulting document (let's suppose the answer above is
> urn:234lkj23/4lk2j ) contains:
>
> <html>
> <head><isindex><title>An Example</title></head>
> <body>
> <p> See <a href="../overview.html">the overview</a> for
> more info.
>
> What if the user selects that link? Is this an error? Must the process
> of resolving urn:234lkj23/4lk2j yield some "local" address (ala the
> HTTP URI: or Location: header or the HTLM <BASE> tag) for use
> with relative HREF's?
The URN is a Uniform Resource NAME, not a Uniform Resource LOCATOR. It
has to be passed to the URN resolution service to obtain a URL which can
then be used to locate and retreive the document. So the answer is, yes,
the process of resolving <urn:234lkj23/4lk2j> will provide a URL which can
then be used as the document's base for relative HREFs.
Jon
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