On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <[email protected]> wrote: > "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.
Fair enough. I guess the main difference for relative references is that they only work for certain schemes and that the file URL scheme has even more special rules. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
