On Wed 2001/03/28 23:58:45 PST, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Oh my, I'm writing yet another spider, for some reason.
>
> I'd like to only spider documents one time. So I'm using a hash of
> URI->canonical keys.
>
> Although I realize these *could* be two different docs, they are not on our
> server:
> http://localhost/path/to/my/file.html
> http://localhost/path/to/../to/my/file.html
>
> Any (URI?) tricks to seeing those as the same document?
I was just looking at this problem for File::Spec::Unix::canonical. There
is no perfect solution. The simple solution if you know there are no sym
links or such is to s|/\w[^/]*/\.\./|/|g (of course, you may have to run
over that regex a few times if there is something like some/path/../../etc).
