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At 10:15 AM 10/2/00 -0500, Paul Grosso wrote: 
I found a mention of fragment identifier and the # separator in
RFC 2396 [1], but I'm still looking for the discussion of the ?
and | separator (especially, whether they require/allow the entire
resource to be downloaded first or not and exactly where/by whom
the bit after the | or ? should get processed).  Can someone give
pointers to the specs that answer these questions?  (I've already
looked at RFC 1738, 1808, and 2396.)  Thanks.

[1] ftp://ftp.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt

The "query component" (starting with a ?) is discussed in RFC 2396, but I'm surprised, on reading this now, that it doesn't say more about the server/user agent distinction. It does say "The query component is a string of information to be interpreted by the resource", and perhaps that's 2396-speak meaning that it's information to be interpreted by the system that serves the resource.

The | separator was invented out of whole cloth in an early version of XLL/XLink; when we (the W3C XML Linking WG) broke out the XPointer stuff into its own spec, the | went away because we had been inappropriately messing with basic URI functionality. Once we got on the track of defining a fragment identifier language for a particular set of media types, the scope became somewhat simpler and clearer.

        Eve
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