Link: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/58
Origin: http://www.w3.org/mid/45B5F524.30007@gmx.de
Component: p1-messaging
3.2.2 really doesn't say what identifies the resource:
"If the port is empty or not given, port 80 is assumed. The semantics are that the identified resource is located at the server listening for TCP connections on that port of that host, and the Request-URI for the resource is abs_path (Section 5.1.2)."
But it *does* say what part of the HTTP URL becomes the Request-URI, and that definitively needs to be fixed.
Here's a proposed replacement text:
"The semantics are that the identified resource is located at the server listening for TCP connections on that port of that host, and the Request-URI for the resource is abs_path plus the optional query parameter (Section 5.1.2)."