* Anne van Kesteren wrote: >On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <[email protected]> wrote: >> Turning relative references into absolute ones is a generic operation >> that works the same for all schemes, as far as RFC 1808 (published in >> 1995) and its successors are concerned. > >That's in part why I wrote http://url.spec.whatwg.org/ as >implementations do not do that. E.g. http:test resolves to >http://test/ if base URL's scheme is not http.
"http:test" is already absolute, so per RFC 3986 the absolute form is "http:test" regardless of the base reference. The relevant case there is rather when the base scheme is "http", because then some implemen- tations treat the string as relative reference, as noted in RFC 3986. Some browsers end up handling the absolute reference "http:test" as if it was "http://test/";, but that has nothing to do with how you turn relative references into absolute references. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:[email protected] · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
