From: Eric Hodel Date: 2012-02-23T10:46:50+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:42821] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6057] URI - Nonsensical Behavior Issue #6057 has been updated by Eric Hodel. Changing the behavior of URI#+ from the current will break many libraries (including mechanize) that depend upon the current behavior of relative resolution. The current behavior is frequently used to combine, for example, an anchor href with the current location to generate a new, correct URI if the href is a relative URI like "foo" or "../foo", a complete path like "/foo" or a complete URI like "http://other.example/bar". ---------------------------------------- Bug #6057: URI - Nonsensical Behavior https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6057 Author: Scott Gonyea Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: lib Target version: ruby -v: 1.9.3-p125 The behavior of Ruby's URI is confusing, to say the least. URI("http://foo.com/bar") + "baz" # => # URI.join("http://foo.com/baz", "bar") # => # I could at least understand this behavior being the case if we were adding "/bar" (although it'd still be non-intuitive). That URI throws away its current path makes it a tedious library. Net::HTTP expects it as an input, yet as you interact with URI, you are constantly massaging it into and out of string form. In my opinion, URI should model the behavior of Pathname. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/