On Sun, Sep 11 2011, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> writes:
>
>> It seems to me that it's what 5.4 talks about.
>
> This is how 5.4 starts:
>
> 5.4.  Reference Resolution Examples
>
>    Within a representation with a well defined base URI of
>
>       http://a/b/c/d;p?q
>
>    a relative reference is transformed to its target URI as follows.

Then go to 5.4.2:

   Although the following abnormal examples are unlikely to occur in
   normal practice, all URI parsers should be capable of resolving them
   consistently.  Each example uses the same base as that above.

   Parsers must be careful in handling cases where there are more ".."
   segments in a relative-path reference than there are hierarchical
   levels in the base URI's path.  Note that the ".." syntax cannot be
   used to change the authority component of a URI.


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Julien Danjou
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