What is a partial redirect or partial redirection?
The concept of partial redirection is the use of a domain as a prefix for a localized hierarchy of URLs. This is possible because a PURL resolver will resolve as much of a PURL as it can find in its database and append the remainder (unresolved portion) to the end of the resolved URL. For example, if the partial redirect http://purl.foo.com/bar exists and is associated with the URL http://your.web.server/your/servers/web/root then an attempt to resolve the partial redirect PURL http://purl.foo.com/bar/some/other/stuff.html will resolve to the URL http://your.web.server/your/servers/web/root/some/other/stuff.
The concept of partial redirection is the use of a domain as a prefix for a localized hierarchy of URLs. This is possible because a PURL resolver will resolve as much of a PURL as it can find in its database and append the remainder (unresolved portion) to the end of the resolved URL. For example, if the partial redirect http://purl.foo.com/bar exists and is associated with the URL http://your.web.server/your/servers/web/root then an attempt to resolve the partial redirect PURL http://purl.foo.com/bar/some/other/stuff.html will resolve to the URL http://your.web.server/your/servers/web/root/some/other/stuff.html Using this concept, you could create a partial redirect as the permanent name prefix for all the resources stored at a web site or any hierarchical subset thereof. For example, suppose you created the partial redirect described above. Every document stored under your server’s web root directory could then be accessed by appending its relative (i.e. partial) path to the partial
