RE: [xml-dev] URIs harmful (was RE: [xml-dev] Article: Keeping pa ce with James Clark)

In Internet Explorer, it returns among other things,

11004 - Host not found

Yes.  I consider that a resolution.  It made the 
attempt and found a document to return.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Miles Sabin [mailto:]

Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote,
> All the "always resolves" means is that if the http: endowed URI is
> handed to a resolver, it will resolve.  What gets returned may be
> caca, but it will resolve.

What? Even http://this.host.does.not.exist/ ?

You won't even get a 404 from that. Do you count TCP-level failures as 
"resolving"?