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Re: Protocol: referrals and other URIs



"Clients are free to ignore"?

>>> Mark C Smith <markcsmithwork@aol.com> 11/13/03 8:04:08 PM >>>
Jong wrote:
>>Other kinds of URIs may be returned. The syntax and symantics of such
>>URIs is left to future specifications. Clients ignore URIs that they
>>don't support.

I am not sure we should say that clients ignore URIs that they do not
understand. A client may want to display them to the user or report an
error in some way if a referral was returned that could not be followed
(or understood).

-Mark