Re: test case: colons in paths?

Roy, can you point to a test case for that?
Tim

On Dec 13, 2004, at 16:40, Roy T. Fielding wrote:

> On Dec 13, 2004, at 12:35 PM, Dan Connolly wrote:
>> What happens if you put a colon in a path, esp
>> in refTo()?
>
> http://gbiv.com/protocols/uri/rev-2002/rfc2396bis.html#relative-ref
>
> (last paragraph of Section 4.2)
>
>    A path segment that contains a colon character (e.g., "this:that")
>    cannot be used as the first segment of a relative-path reference
>    because it would be mistaken for a scheme name.  Such a segment must
>    be preceded by a dot-segment (e.g., "./this:that") to make a
>    relative-path reference.
>
> ....Roy

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