- From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 18:35:33 -0600
- To: "Jason Diamond" <jason@injektilo.org>, <uri@w3.org>
At 14:31 2002 01 08 -0800, Jason Diamond wrote: >Hi, I have a question regarding the examples in Appendix C.2 of RFC2396. > >It says: > >> Similarly, parsers must avoid treating "." and ".." as special when >> they are not complete components of a relative path. >> >> /./g = http://a/./g > >My question regards this first example. My implementation is resolving this >relative URI (with http://a/b/c/d;p?q as the base URI) as http://a/g. Every >other example in Appendix C is passing for me. I must have a bug but I'm >confused as to why the dot in the above example isn't "complete component of >a relative path" that should get stripped. Can anybody enlighten me? /./g isn't a relative path--it starts with /. paul
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