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From: Frank Kozuschnik <franko@nurfuerspam.de>
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Subject: Re: IIS http.open "GET" error
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 19:38:30 +0200
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:

> Frank Kozuschnik:
> 
>> "Just a file name" *is* a valid URL, typically relative to the URL of
>> the current document.
> 
> In proper technical terms, it is a URI-reference.  It is NOT a URL.

My apologies for picking the outdated reference. RFC 1808 has indeed 
become history, and the current RFC no longer uses the term "relative URL".

The WHATWG specification calls it a valid URL string.
As such, it is still a valid argument for the open() method.