From: nan wu <i.wunan+rubymail@...>
Date: 2007-07-30T20:56:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it a bug of URI lib?

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Maybe I should report it to the Akira Yamada the original author of URI lib.
The URI lib should be updated since we will meet many cases like that with
RFC 3986.

I have checked the source codes of URI lib. I found it completely follow the
RFC 2396.


2007/7/30, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org>:
>
> 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
>
>

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