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

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From: Ian Hickson (ian@hixie.ch)
Date: Thu Sep 19 2002 - 17:33:58 BST

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, 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.

Without much effort?

You have to parse:

   HTTP Content-Location
   HTTP Content-Base
   <meta> tags for Content-Location
   <meta> tags for Content-Base
   HTML <base href>
   XML xbase

...along with everything that implies (including correctly parsing the
HTML and XML tree to get past any comments, etc).

That is incredibly _non_-trivial.

What advantage do we gain which would outweight the disadvantages? 

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