From: Luis Parravicini <lparravi@...>
Date: 2009-01-29T01:24:40+09:00
Subject: Re: how to get an absolute address of a link

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Tsunami Script <lyon2003@lycos.com> wrote:
> Is there some URL lib that I can use to get the absolute address of a
> relative URL ? Maybe I could pass a "base" link to the method . Ideally
> , I would like to know if this could by achieved from mechanize , but
> anything would do .

You can use URI.join

 irb -ruri
irb(main):001:0> URI.join('http://example.com', '/path/a/b')
=> #<URI::HTTP:0xb7ce2b08 URL:http://example.com/path/a/b>
irb(main):002:0> URI.join('http://example.com', 'http://google.com/path/a/b')
=> #<URI::HTTP:0xb7cdf28c URL:http://google.com/path/a/b>
irb(main):003:0>



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