Re: Soliciting feedback on draft-abarth-url

FWIW -
  https://gist.github.com/138549

Cheers,


On 19/04/2011, at 4:32 AM, Adam Barth wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>> On 18.04.2011 19:26, Adam Barth wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Julian Reschke<julian.reschke@gmx.de>
>>>  wrote:
>>>> On 18.04.2011 18:08, Adam Barth wrote:
>>>>>> I think it would be extremely useful to have a comparison how those
>>>>>> tests
>>>>>> with absolute URIs would be parsed by the regexp in the URI spec:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc3986.html#rfc.section.B>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Are there differences? And if there are, do UAs agree on what to do
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> those inputs?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there an easy way to execute that regular expression?  That
>>>>> document doesn't provide  a reference defining the semantics of the
>>>>> regular expression.  It alludes to POSIX regular expressions.  Is
>>>>> there some way to write a POSIX program that executes it?  In any
>>>>> case, I'd be happy to consider it if someone can explain to me how to
>>>>> run it over the test suite mentioned above.
>>>> 
>>>> How about just using JS regexps, and see where we can get from there?
>>> 
>>> Is that correct?  JS regular expressions are Perl-compatible regular
>>> expressions.  Is that the same as POSIX regular expressions in this
>>> context?
>> 
>> I don't know for sure but I'm pretty confident it won't make a difference
>> for that particular one.
> 
> Ok.  I'll give it a try.  Thanks.
> 
> Adam
> 

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