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PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoleted by:

RFC 3986

Updates:

RFC 1738

Updated by:

RFC 2368,RFC 2396

Author:

R. Fielding

Stream:

[Legacy]

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC1808

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Abstract

In situations where the base URL is well-defined and known to the parser (human or machine), it is useful to be able to embed URL references which inherit that context rather than re-specifying it in every instance. This document defines the syntax and semantics for such Relative Uniform Resource Locators. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.