- From: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:48:21 -0600 (MDT)
- To: Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@hartwork.org>
- CC: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>, uri@w3.org
Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> Mike Brown wrote:
> > Test cases are in
> > http://cvs.4suite.org/viewcvs/4Suite/test/Lib/test_uri.py?view=markup.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I found a test case that seems strange to me.
> It's one of the cases in absolutize_test_cases:
>
> ('.//g', 'f:/a', 'f://g')
>
> In the reference "g" is the name of a path
> while it becomes the host part in the resolved URI.
> Can this be correct?
That's Relative84 from Graham Klyne's tests at
http://www.ninebynine.org/Software/HaskellUtils/Network/UriTest.xls
A bit of Googling reveals Rob Cameron brought up the issue before:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2003Jun/0037.html
Roy Fielding said it's not an issue:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2003Jun/0040.html
Rob demonstrated that it was, and suggested that the algorithm be
changed to better handle it:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2003Jun/0043.html
I don't see any evidence that it went any further than this.
Received on Wednesday, 1 August 2007 04:48:55 UTC