Re: http URL defn in HTTP/1.0
hallam@w3.org
Mon, 15 Apr 96 16:29:24 -0400
>>Should section 3.2.2 be modified to the following?
>>
>>http_URL = "http:" "//" host [":" port] ["/" [path] ["?" query]]
>I hope not, because I'm about to propose a "version" parameter to
>allow access to back revisions of a page stored in a version
>control system like RCS or SCCS.
I hope nobody intends to make such a proposal until after the 1.1
draft is submitted...
... in any case I think there might be somewhat more of a problem
with versions than one might think at first glance. Having built a
server on top of CMS a couple of years ago I don't think that there
is a comprehensive version naming strategy avaliable.
I think that it may be a more profitable approach to look at versioning
in terms of annotations and link semantics and not in terms of URLs.
After all we may well have an MD5 URN someday [I already have a protocol
for resolving these]. There would be little opportunity to make an
MD5 URN work with versioning...
Anyway, enough said... we can return to this in May.
Phill