Web spaces of strange topology. Where?

Michael De La Rue (mikedlr@indy.unipress.waw.pl)
Sat, 11 May 1996 16:24:51 +0200 (MDT)


IF you know of any, could you point me to some web spaces with strange
topology. Particularly I'm looking for (expressed in relative bits of
urls)

x/y/../z is not the same as x/z

x/./x is not the same as

I also have some interested in

~x

not equal to

%9Ex (correct char??)

and to some extent other strange topologies involving quoted/unquoted
strings, but not topologies, for example, where two URLs merely happen to
reference the same document.

I'm also interested in anything really strange which I haven't thought of,
but since I haven't thought of it yet, I can't explain what.

I guess I'd be particularly interested if these happened in normal static
collections of files and less so if it was a program which was just using
arbitrary URLs for storing state.

Suggestions gratefully recieved. Anyone?

Suggestions gratefully recieved. Anyone? I'm trying to look into what
robots could be made to understand and to some extent classifying these
different kinds of things so that an `agent' can know what kind of
traversals* are safe within any particular topology.

Michael

* Link comparisons? Whatever. Operations on URL objects and `related'
pairs of URL objects would probably be the most accurate expression.

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