Re: [blogite] pingback: non-absolute URL for pingback server ?

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From: Aquarion (nicholas@aquarionics.com)
Date: Thu Sep 19 2002 - 17:05:56 BST

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 01:08:15PM +0200, michel v wrote:
>
> A little problem that I have with the pingback spec is that it forces
> you to tell the absolute URL of the pingback server, while a relative
> URL could be handled without much effort by pingback clients. It also
> differs from the way we can link to stylesheets with relative or
> absolute URL for example.
> Are there any plans to update the specs to make the URL not mandatory
> absolute ?

I hope not, but who can tell.

Personally, I'd go against it, mainly because it means every client
parsing the domain out of the permalink or somewhere, which isn't
good.
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