Re: relation of ISMAP to URL

Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Thu, 13 Apr 95 12:04:46 EDT

> A colleague asked the question below. I didn't know how to answer
> him. I don't think the HTML 2.0 (or 3.0?) specification states how a
> browser should modify the anchor URL surrounding an ISMAP image when it
> sends the augmented URL to a server. That behavior seems to fall into
> a gray area between HTML and HTTP.

Check out section 3 ("Establishing a Base URL") in

ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-uri-relative-url-06.txt

which is about to go for 'last call' before becoming standards-track
RFC (from neither the HTML nor the HTTP working group, but rather the
URI working group.)