Hi, Hartmut Goebel <[email protected]> skribis:
> I propose fixing all places where string-append is used to join URLs, > since joining URLs is not the same as string concatenation. We might > restrict our algorithm to only joining a > path. <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-5.2.2> shows the > complete algorithm, where this is the relevant part for only joining a > path (R.path) to a base URL's path (T.path). > > if (R.path starts-with "/") then > T.path = remove_dot_segments(R.path); > else > T.path = merge(Base.path, R.path); > T.path = remove_dot_segments(T.path); To begin with, we could define ‘url-append’ in (guix http-client), say, and use it in (guix scripts substitute). Eventually it would be nice to have that in (web uri). Thoughts? Ludo’.
