Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Richard Stallman <address@hidden>:

>> I don't.  Yes, I want it to be "as short as possible", but I also
>> want it to work when passed to any random web-browser.
>> So it pretty much has to look like "http://<hostname>/<somethingelse>".

> Whatever it looks like, it has to lead to your locally installed copy
> of the manual in question.

FWIW, a relative local path, eg. "../chap1.html", is also a legal URI
reference: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-A

All existing web browsers will respect this.