Re: Is this use of BASE kosher?

Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Sat, 5 Aug 95 00:41:39 EDT

| If the URI in the address of the head anchor is the same as the base
| URI, then the base document is sufficient as a representation of the
| resource. A user agent must not, for example, use any network
| information retrieval protocols to obtain a new representation of the
| resourse.

Lest there be any ambiguity, I would change 'same as' to 'exactly the
same as' or 'identical to'. Otherwise, we'll have divergent behavior
between two browsers that have different URI canonicalization rules.

(is http://host.com/foo the 'same as' http://host.com:80/foo ?)