Is it too pedantic to wish that people would not use "resolve" when
they mean "dereference"? The terms are distinguished in RFC 3986[1]:
"URI "resolution" is the process of
determining an access mechanism and the appropriate parameters
necessary to dereference a URI; this resolution may require several
iterations. To use that access mechanism to perform an action on the
URI's resource is to "dereference" the URI." [1]
I bet the concensus answer to my question is "Yes". Sigh.
[1]http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt
Bob (The Pedant) Morris
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