From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-05-19T01:09:58+09:00
Subject: Re: URI::merge bug?

Daniel Martin wrote:
> Daniel Martin <martin@snowplow.org> writes:
> 
>> In fact, this is a bug, but not the one you think.  "?a=b" is a
>> malformed relative URI.  You should get a parse error trying to create
>> that.
>>
>> According to RFC2396, a relative URI consists of (section 5, near the
>> bottom of pg. 17):
> 
> You know what?  I'm using an old RFC.  Everything I said applies to
> RFC 2396, but that's not the current URI RFC.  The current one is
> RFC 3986, and by that one firefox is doing exactly the right thing.
> (So, by the way, is Opera)
> 
> So it is a bug in URI, and the bug is "written to an old RFC".
> 
> I don't know how to explain Internet Explorer's odd behavior with
> regard to a relative uri of "", but that's Microsoft for you.
> 
Thanks - that pretty much confirms what I thought.  Would a patch to 
bring URI up to RFC 3986 compliance be a huge undertaking?

-- 
Alex