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- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:30:40 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17772
Summary: [URL] The definition of "absolute url" makes https:foo
not an absolute url, since its behavior depends on
whether the base is https: or not. Is that desired?
In particular, using this definition for websockets
means that wss: urls with no forward...
Product: HTML WG
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#abs
olute-url
OS/Version: other
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: HTML5 spec
AssignedTo: dave.null@w3.org
ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
CC: ian@hixie.ch, bzbarsky@mit.edu, mike@w3.org,
public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
public-html@w3.org, julian.reschke@gmx.de,
w3c@adambarth.com, public-webapps@w3.org,
adrianba@microsoft.com
This was was cloned from bug 10213 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2010-07-20 20:37:00 +0000
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#0 contributor@whatwg.org 2010-07-20 20:37:20 +0000
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Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#absolute-url
Comment:
The definition of "absolute url" makes https:foo not an absolute url, since
its behavior depends on whether the base is https: or not. Is that desired?
In particular, using this definition for websockets means that wss: urls with
no forward slashes after the ':' are treated as non-absolute, though in fact
they're treated as absolute by the browser in practice.
Posted from: 173.48.34.3
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#1 Simon Pieters 2010-07-20 21:34:35 +0000
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Changing component so Hixie sees this while working on websockets.
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#2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-07-22 05:39:43 +0000
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ws:foo isn't absolute, therefore per spec it's treated as non-absolute. Am I
missing something? Are browsers not implementing the spec here?
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#3 Boris Zbarsky 2010-07-22 05:50:07 +0000
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> ws:foo isn't absolute,
How is a browser supposed to know that? Trying to create a URI from that
string without a base URI successfully creates one, for example...
> Are browsers not implementing the spec here?
Nope. Neither Gecko nor webkit throw on such a url, for example. In Gecko's
case, because the concept of "absolute url" the spec uses (one which resolves
to different things depending on the base) matches nothing that Necko exposes,
and because by the definition normally used in Gecko (it's an absolute URL if
you can parse it as a url even if there is no base) this url is absolute.
See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580234 which is what
prompted me to read this section to start with.
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#4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-08-13 07:31:20 +0000
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I would like to make this Adam's problem. Not sure what the status of his URL
work is right now.
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#5 Adam Barth 2010-08-13 16:39:54 +0000
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Happy for this to be my problem. The state of the URL work is that I have lots
of data to crunch and I need to sit down with a big pot of coffee and crunch
it.
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#6 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-05-24 20:24:47 +0000
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This is now a problem with the WebSocket protocol spec.
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#7 Adrian Bateman [MSFT] 2011-07-07 21:45:28 +0000
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Section 3 of the protocol spec
(http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-09#section-3)
shows the valid syntax for a ws-URI. We believe the API should throw a
SYNTAX_ERR if the address supplied does not match this format.
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#8 Boris Zbarsky 2011-07-07 22:43:47 +0000
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That would be inconsistent with how URIs are handled elsewhere in the web
platform...
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#9 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-07-08 20:05:50 +0000
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This is a generic platform bug, so I'm moving it out of the WebSockets bucket.
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