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Re: Best Practice for URI construction?

• To: Ian Graham <ian.graham@u...>
• Subject: Re: Best Practice for URI construction?
• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@g...>
• Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:54:36 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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* Ian Graham wrote:
>One observation/result was that a substantial fraction of users expect 
>truncating a URL at 'natural' places to return meaningful results. This, 
>for example, is one of the intuitive 'search' algorithms people use when 
>a link doesn't work. As an example, if
>
>http://somewhere.org/US/IL/
>
>is a valid URL, then truncating this to
>
>http://somewhere.org/US/
>
>should both work and provide meaningful information.

People who do this commit web architecture crime, the TAG commands
"People making use of URIs SHOULD NOT attempt to infer properties
of the referenced resource".
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