- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 12:45:57 -0500
- To: tvaughan@aventail.com
- Cc: Vaclav Barta <vbar@comp.cz>, wwwlib <www-lib@w3.org>
At 09:51 3/25/99 -0800, tvaughan@aventail.com wrote: >Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org> writes: > >> You can have a look at the URI canonicalization function in >> >> http://www.w3.org/Library/src/HTParse.html > >This seems to just operate on the path portion of the url. Is there a >function which takes a url like: > > http://www/some/./path/ > >and turns it into: > > http://www.w3.org:80/some/path/ For some time, I canonicalized the hostname as part of the HTParse function. However, it turns out that there is no safe mechanism to get the domain name - people are often playing tricks with the domain names and NIS also often gets in the way. I therefore had to disable it - but the code is still there - look in http://www.w3.org/Library/src/HTParse.c in the HTCanon function. It would be nice if you could add a flag so that this can be enabled/disabled on demand by the app. Henrik -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk
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