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m (Annevk moved page Registry-URL-schemes to URL schemes: This page is useless. Lets use it define about/javascript for now, until they have a home.)
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* [https://github.com/josephholsten/about-uri-scheme/raw/master/draft-holsten-about-uri-scheme-07.txt about:]
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== about: URLs ==
 
'''about: URLs''' server as identifier, potentially with an associated resource. The identifier is given in the URL's scheme data.
 
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Identifier
! Resource
! Notes
|-
| "blank"
| A resource whose Content-Type is text/html;charset=utf-8 and entity body is the empty string.
|
|-
| "invalid"
| -
| Used to represent a network error.
|-
| "legacy-compat"
| -
| Used in HTML for XSLT serializers.
|-
| "unicorn"
| A resource whose Content-Type is image/svg+xml and entity body is the contents of [http://html5.org/temp/unicorn.svg unicorn.svg].
| Unicorn!
|}
 
To '''obtain a resource from an about: URL''', run these steps:
 
* If URL's scheme data is not the literal string "about" or "invalid", return a network error. (URL's query is simply not taken into account and can be anything.)
* Return the resource corresponding to the identifier as listed in the table above, with HTTP status code 200 and HTTP status text "OK".
 
 
== Others ==
 
* [http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hoehrmann-javascript-scheme javascript:]
* [http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hoehrmann-javascript-scheme javascript:]
* [http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol ws: & wss:]
* [http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol ws: & wss:]
* Many more. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme Wikipedia]
* See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme Wikipedia]
* See [http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes.html IANA]


[[Category:Registries]]
[[Category:Registries]]

Revision as of 12:59, 28 November 2012

Licensing: this page is under CC0, not the MIT License.

about: URLs

about: URLs server as identifier, potentially with an associated resource. The identifier is given in the URL's scheme data.

Identifier Resource Notes
"blank" A resource whose Content-Type is text/html;charset=utf-8 and entity body is the empty string.
"invalid" - Used to represent a network error.
"legacy-compat" - Used in HTML for XSLT serializers.
"unicorn" A resource whose Content-Type is image/svg+xml and entity body is the contents of unicorn.svg. Unicorn!

To obtain a resource from an about: URL, run these steps:

  • If URL's scheme data is not the literal string "about" or "invalid", return a network error. (URL's query is simply not taken into account and can be anything.)
  • Return the resource corresponding to the identifier as listed in the table above, with HTTP status code 200 and HTTP status text "OK".


Others