On 30 Sep 2001, at 12:21, Q. Alex Zhao wrote: > Hi, I'm using wget-1.7 and found a problem with uri_merge on slashdot > pages. > > Basically, slashdot likes to use something like > <IMG SRC="//images.slashdot.org/topics/topicwine.gif"> > Since the referring page is "http://slashdot.org/topics.shtml";, > uri_merge returns > "http://slashdot.org//images.slashdot.org/topics/topicwine.gif";, instead > of the correct "http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicwine.gif";.
Yes, that's definitely a bug in wget-1.7 (and wget-1.7.1-pre1). RFC 2396 section 5 calls this type of relative URI a "network-path reference" (and notes that it is rarely used) so I suppose your patch should call it the same thing. > I made some simeple changes to url.c to handle this problem. Thought > you'd like to know. Well done, but I don't think your patch (snipped) is general enough, as the bit at the front of the merged URL (the protocol or "scheme" part) is not always "http:" but should be copied from elsewhere. Oh, and patches really should be sent to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Regards, Ian Abbott
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