On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 09:00, Scott Cantor <> wrote:
> Breno de Medeiros wrote on 2010-01-26:
>>> Is the rule for subject comparison going to be completely generic, or
> have
>>> special cases? But I agree, that's a reasonable point.
>>
>> The rules for subject matching will probably have to use
>> scheme-specific matching.
>
> Isn't that part of standard normalization?
Yes, but there was reference to use byte-by-byte comparison instead.
>
>> Search engines would really like if people
>> referred to the same subject with the same string always, but
>> unfortunately they do not. If we can't tolerate mismatches like
>> http://example.com:80 and http://Example.com/ it may lead to serious
>> interop issues.
>
> I know that's definitely covered by normalization but maybe you have other
> things in mind also?
>
Indeed it is. And no, I had only standard normalization in mind.
> -- Scott
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