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Re: Client-side searching proposal

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy T. Fielding)
Wed Jan 25 20:06:40 1995

Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 01:26:21 +0100
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From: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
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Joe English wrote:

> Perhaps a similar syntax would be appropriate for client-side
> interpretation of URL fragment identifiers:
> 
>     http://foo.com/dir/foo.txt#lines=10-20
> 			      ^
> 
> The presence or absense of an '=' sign in the fragment would
> determine whether the fragment is an extended locator
> or an anchor name (or element ID in HTML 3).

I prefer this syntax as well -- it is both clearer and
more extensible than using a special character to indicate each
possible use for a fragment.


.....Roy Fielding   ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine  USA
                                     <fielding@ics.uci.edu>
                     <URL:http://www.ics.uci.edu/dir/grad/Software/fielding>

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