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        RFC 1808:

        Title:      Relative Uniform Resource Locators
        Author:     R. Fielding
        Date:       June 1995
        Mailbox:    fielding@ics.uci.edu
        Pages:      16
        Characters: 34,950
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1808.txt


A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a compact representation of the
location and access method for a resource available via the Internet.
When embedded within a base document, a URL in its absolute form may
contain a great deal of information which is already known from the
context of that base document's retrieval, including the scheme,
network location, and parts of the url-path.  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.  This RFC is the product of the Uniform Resource Identifiers
Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Prosposed Standard Protocol.

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