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5. Request

5.3 Request-URI

The Request-URI is a Universal Resource Identifier (Section 3.2) and identifies the resource upon which to apply the request.

Request-URI	=	URI
Unless the server is being used as a proxy, a partial URI shall be given with the assumptions of the scheme (http) and hostname:port (the server's address) being obvious. That is, if the full URI looks like

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
then the corresponding partial URI in the Simple-Request or Full-Request is

/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
If the client is sending the request through a proxy, the absolute form of the URI (including scheme and server address) must be used. A proxy must be able to recognize all of its server names, including any aliases, local variations, and the numeric IP address.

T. Berners-Lee, R. T. Fielding, H. Frystyk Nielsen - 12 MAR 95

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