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Re: What does the "authority" in <scheme>://<authority>mean?

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• Subject: Re: What does the "authority" in <scheme>://<authority>mean?
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:08:50 -0400
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>>Can we say that the "authority" used in [RFC 2396] denotes an host name
 >> or its IPv4 Address?

 >Yes

Sort of.  RFC 2396 is a generic syntax.  For the http and https schemes, 
then the authority is DNS.  For an ldap scheme, the authority would be 
the RFC that defines LDAP->URI syntax.  For the rsalz scheme, the 
authority would be my wife. :)
	/r$


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