Re: parsing and comparing URIs

[Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net>]

"McDonald, Ira" writes:
>Actually, you can't safely compare URIs at all unless
>you subject them both to normalization and (as RFC
>3986 clearly says) a given protocol that depends on
>comparison of URIs must precisely specify the steps
>of normalization required for those comparisons.

It also says:

   Normalization of the base and target URIs prior to their comparison,
   as described in Sections 6.2.2 and 6.2.3, is allowed but rarely
   performed in practice.

Thanks,
 Phil

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