From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-05-18T22:23:58+09:00
Subject: Re: URI::merge bug?

On 5/18/07, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm not sure whether this is a bug:
>
> irb(main):013:0> a = URI.parse("http://www.example.com/foo/bar?a=b")
> => #<URI::HTTP:0xfdbb6d160 URL:http://www.example.com/foo/bar?a=b>
> irb(main):014:0> b = URI.parse("?a=c")
> => #<URI::Generic:0xfdbb6b770 URL:?a=c>
> irb(main):015:0> puts a.merge(b).to_s
> http://www.example.com/foo/?a=c
>
> I'd expect the last line to be "http://www.example.com/foo/bar?a=c" - it
> seems to lose the last element of the path.  Firefox seems to think do
> what I'm expecting, anyway...  Can someone more au fait with URI RFC's
> comment?

Hi,

have alook at what "?a=c" parses to, i.e. if it is interpreted as
"/?a=c" that would explain the behaviour.

J.