From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-07-30T20:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it a bug of URI lib?

nan wu wrote:
> I use the URI.merge method, and I met something incorrect. It is a bug of
> URI lib?
> 
> For example:
> 
> require 'uri'
> 
> site_url = 'http://www.try.com/test.aspx'
> cur_url ='?page=2'
> 
> site=URI.parse(site_url)
> 
> cur=URI.parse(cur_url)
> 
> p farther.merge(cur)
> 
> The result:
> 
> #<URI::HTTP:0x15bc060 URL:http://www.try.com/?page=2<http://www.try.com/?page=2>
> 
> But what I want is:
> 
> *http://www.try.com/test.aspx?page=2*
> 
> So I think this is a bug,because the ?page=2 is legal relative url in html.
> 
It's legal under RFC 3986, but not under RFC 2396, as far as I know. 
The URI library is written to conform to the latter.  There was a 
suggestion a little while ago to update it, but I don't know that 
anything came of it.  If I had the time I'd do it myself, but I'm under 
the gun at the moment.

-- 
Alex