Subject: Re: bug#8622: 24.0.50; url-parse does not implement RFC3986 5.2

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:46:07 +0200

Julien Danjou <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 11 2011, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> What are you trying to prove?
>
> That your example:
>
> ELISP> (url-generic-parse-url "http://a/../../../g")
> [cl-struct-url "http" nil nil "a" 80 "/../../../g" nil nil t]
>
> will not work.

In which way does it not work?  There is the scheme "http", the host
"a", the port 80 and the local part "/../../../g".  Everything is fully
correct according to the rules of a URI.  How the local part is
interpreted is only defined by the remote host.

Andreas.

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