Subject: Re: [hybi] Section 3 (URIs), was: I-D Action:draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-07.txt

From: Julian Reschke <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 22:44:00 +0200

On 2011-04-24 09:36, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> this still needs work:
>
> - it's unclear why we define parsing - is the parsing consistent with
> RFC 3986? If yes, why do we have the section? If no, what's the difference?
>
> - it now talks about URIs and doesn't mention IRIs anymore, but still
> considers cases if non-ASII characters.
>
> I still believe that it would be sufficient to define the URI scheme in
> ABNF, and be done with it.
> ...

Another problem with the current text is that it appears to be vague -- 
what does

    1.   If the /uri/ string is not an absolute URI, then fail this
         algorithm.  [RFC3986]

mean? What's the definition of "absolute URI" here?

Best regards, Julian