Re: PaceFeedEquivalence

[Walter Underwood <wunder@xxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:56 PM -0700 Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes.  If I have two pointers to feeds:
>
> http://www.example.com:80/feed.atom
> http://www.Example.COM/feed.atom
>
> I guarantee that some apps, in particular web spiders, are going to get
> very aggressive about schema-specific normalization and regard these as
> equivalent, and I don't see any reason to rule this out.  Norm?  -Tim

I'm not Norm, but I can confirm that. Normalization is done very
early, including %-escapes, ".." in paths, trimming fragments,
deleting session IDs, ...

wunder
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Walter Underwood
Principal Architect, Verity