On 23 Apr 2007, at 00:33, John D. Mitchell wrote:
Sorry for the slow response, too busy to keep up. :-(
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Note that we enforce all the URI spec examples with a set of unit
tests.
Looking at how tricky those examples are, we feel very confident
about the
quality of Reference's output :)
Sorry, IMO that's still incorrect...
If 'dir' is a directory then the behavior is as I noted. If 'dir' is
actually a file *then* the behavior that you mention would be correct.
This behavior is obvious (Principle of Least Surprise) if one mimics
the behavior by actually trying these out in a shell and move around a
filesystem. :-)
Just have to butt in here to support Jerome: the Reference is a
representation of a URL and URLs can know nothing about whether a
path represents a directory or a file. It is up to the server to
enforce any semantic breakage that occurs. This *must* be the case,
otherwise URL manipulations would have to round-trip to the server to
discover 'dirness' or 'fileness'.
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