Re: Soliciting feedback on draft-abarth-url

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

Received on Monday, 18 April 2011 18:33:41 UTC