[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > According to RFC 2396[1] section 5.2: RFC 2396 is obsolete. It was superseded by RFC 3986 / STD 66 early this year.
In particular, the procedure for removing dot-segments from the path component of a URI reference -- a procedure that is only supposed to be done when 'resolving' a reference to absolute form (i.e., merging it with a base URI, which, being a URI, not a URI reference, is not allowed to contain dot-segments) -- has received a significant overhaul. The implementation guidance you quoted from RFC 2396 is no longer relevant. Technically, it never was relevant, since urlparse only claims to implement RFC 1808 (2396's predecessor, now ten years old). The new procedure says "...dot-segments are intended for use in URI references to express an identifier relative to the hierarchy of names in the base URI. The remove_dot_segments algorithm respects that hierarchy by removing extra dot-segments rather than treat them as an error or leaving them to be misinterpreted by dereference implementations." -Mike _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
