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On Dec 9, 2005, at 1:18 PM, bryan rasmussen wrote:
>> According to RFC 3986,
>> Section 3.4:
>>
>> The query component contains non-hierarchical data that, along
>> with
>> data in the path component (Section 3.3), serves to identify a
>> resource within the scope of the URI's scheme and naming
>> authority
>> (if any).[1]
>>
>> I read that as saying that the query part participates in
>> identifying a
>> resource just as much as the path does.
>>
> No, I read that as saying the path identifies the location of the
> resource, the querystring identifies something akin to metadata of the
> resource.
I believe you are wrong. I think that text should be read as saying
what it says, i.e. that the stuff in the query component and the
stuff in the path component together serve to identify the resource.
End of story. -Tim
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