Editing Deep linking (section)

==Deep linking and HTTP==
The technology behind the World Wide Web, the [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol]] (HTTP), does not actually make any distinction between "deep" links and any other links&mdash;all links are functionally equal. This is intentional; one of the design purposes of the Web is to allow authors to link to any published document on another site. The possibility of so-called "deep" linking is therefore built into the Web technology of [[HTTP]] and [[Uniform Resource Locator|URL]]s by default&mdash;while a site can attempt to restrict deep links, to do so requires extra effort. According to the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] Technical Architecture Group, "any attempt to forbid the practice of deep linking is based on a misunderstanding of the technology, and threatens to undermine the functioning of the Web as a whole".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/deeplinking.html | title=Deep Linking in the World Wide Web | access-date=May 30, 2007 | last=Bray | first=Tim | date=Sep 11, 2003 | publisher=W3.org }}</ref>