Re: Proposition on advanced URL features (Request for comments)

Paul Burchard (burchard@cs.princeton.edu)
Tue, 28 Nov 95 12:25:43 -0500


James Whitescarver <jim@eies.njit.edu> writes:
> 1. The use of ## for special anchors seems reasonable.

You mean "##H", "##P", "##/", etc., according to what was proposed.
This seems like a very ad hoc type declaration scheme.

> 6. If there are browser or server implimentor looking to
> add "selection" anchors we should define the
> conventions. Most current browsers, as far as I know, do
> not send the #anchorName in the HTTP GET or POST and will
> not, therefor, work as is with selection anchors.

That's good -- they should never be set to the server. Although
the URI spec is not fully clear on this point, I would strongly
object to muddying the current stable distinction between "?" as a
server-side resource specializer, and "#" as a client-side resource
specializer.

Netscape is also proposing to make use of URL paramters (";" stuff)
for server-side byte-range extraction, which seems like a good
idea.

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