Target-URI is absolute

[mnot]

Considerations for new method should mention that the target URI has to be absolute.

from ietf-wg-masque/draft-ietf-masque-connect-udp#23

[DavidSchinazi]

+1, thanks for filing!

[reschke]

We currently say:

A URI reference is resolved to its absolute form in order to obtain the "target URI". The target URI excludes the reference's fragment component, if any, since fragment identifiers are reserved for client-side processing ([RFC3986], Section 3.5).

Isn't that sufficiently clear?

[DavidSchinazi]

It wasn't clear to me because I didn't read the whole doc when I was searching for this information.

[royfielding]

It's weird to say this because a URI is always in absolute form (part of what makes it Uniform). Only a reference can be relative, like within the request-target of 1.1 (absolute-path) or anything called a URI-reference.

I think what you want to add is a reminder that new method extensions cannot use the host:port or asterisk forms of request target. Note that this only requires a request target in absolute form if the scheme or host:port are necessary to define the target, which they are for CONNECT-UDP.