Re: [saml-dev] Normal form of https URL

[Paul Denning <pauld@mitre.org>]

http and https are URI schemes, as registered at [1].

The URI scheme registry points to an RFC that describes the scheme.  In the 
case of HTTPS, it is RFC 2818 [2].

[1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes
[2] http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2818.txt

Paul

At 05:35 PM 2002-06-05, Charles Knouse wrote:
>Everyone,
>Hopefully this is a quick question: Is the normalized URL for 
>https://host.domain.com/someResource.html
>1) http://host.domain.com:443/someResource.html or
>2) https://host.domain.com:443/someResource.html?
>
>RFC 2396 never mentions https as a protocol, so I assume the right form is 
>(1).
>
>Thanks,
>Charles
>
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