Editing Uniform Resource Identifier (section)

=== Resolution ===

''Resolving'' a URI reference against a ''base URI'' results in a ''target URI''. This implies that the base URI exists and is an ''absolute URI'' (a URI with no fragment component). The base URI can be obtained, in order of precedence, from:{{Ref RFC|3986|rsection=5.1}}

* the reference URI itself if it is a URI;
* the content of the representation;
* the entity encapsulating the representation;
* the URI used for the actual retrieval of the representation;
* the context of the application.

Within a representation with a well defined base URI of

<pre>
http://a/b/c/d;p?q
</pre>

a relative reference is resolved to its target URI as follows:{{Ref RFC|3986|rsection=5.4}}

<pre>
"g:h"     -> "g:h"
"g"       -> "http://a/b/c/g"
"./g"     -> "http://a/b/c/g"
"g/"      -> "http://a/b/c/g/"
"/g"      -> "http://a/g"
"//g"     -> "http://g"
"?y"      -> "http://a/b/c/d;p?y"
"g?y"     -> "http://a/b/c/g?y"
"#s"      -> "http://a/b/c/d;p?q#s"
"g#s"     -> "http://a/b/c/g#s"
"g?y#s"   -> "http://a/b/c/g?y#s"
";x"      -> "http://a/b/c/;x"
"g;x"     -> "http://a/b/c/g;x"
"g;x?y#s" -> "http://a/b/c/g;x?y#s"
""        -> "http://a/b/c/d;p?q"
"."       -> "http://a/b/c/"
"./"      -> "http://a/b/c/"
".."      -> "http://a/b/"
"../"     -> "http://a/b/"
"../g"    -> "http://a/b/g"
"../.."   -> "http://a/"
"../../"  -> "http://a/"
"../../g" -> "http://a/g"
</pre>