Re: Jena/SPARQL.org bug when processing URNs

Toby A Inkster wrote:
>
> For Shane's benefit: I'm guessing what he's doing is passing URLs to 
> the URI::URL Perl module to help resolve relative URIs. My workaround 
> has been to first compare them against this regexp:
>
>     /^([a-z][a-z0-9\+\.\-]*)\:/i
>
> If the URI matches that regexp, then it's already absolute, so you 
> don't need to pass it through URI::URL.
Fun!  Actually, what is happening in my implementation is that I am 
using URI->new_abs to ensure that all URIs are absolute URIs (and create 
absolute URIs from relative ones).  I worked around this by using the 
URI classes as_string method instead of canonical method - works fine.  
It just surprised me that the stuff was treated case-sensitively when 
the RFC said it should not me.  And, of course, I had forgotten the 
earlier discussion.  Thanks for reminding me, Toby!

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