- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:58:14 +0000
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote: > "http:test" is already absolute, so per RFC 3986 the absolute form is > "http:test" regardless of the base reference. The relevant case there > is rather when the base scheme is "http", because then some implemen- > tations treat the string as relative reference, as noted in RFC 3986. > > Some browsers end up handling the absolute reference "http:test" as > if it was "http://test/", but that has nothing to do with how you turn > relative references into absolute references. Fair enough. I guess the main difference for relative references is that they only work for certain schemes and that the file URL scheme has even more special rules. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
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