On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:29 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> wrote:

Right. But I am working more with URL paths nowadays. In there if I
want to join two paths, no matter if 2nd starts with slash or not, I
don't really expect the 2nd to rewrite the first.

Joining url paths is different from joining file system paths. I wouldn't suggest using a function designed for one to do the other.

urljoin('https://s/a/b/', 'x') => 'https://s/a/b/x')

urljoin('https://s/a/b/', '/x/y') => 'https://s/x/y')

urljoin('https://s/a/b/', '//t/x/y') => 'https://t/x/y')

urljoin('https://s/a/b/', '//t') => 'https://t/a/b')

urljoin('https://s/a/b/', 'http:') => 'http://s/a/b')

urljoin('http:', '//s', 'x/y') => 'http://s/x/y')

Note that I'm ignoring the issue of whether or not the last part of the url on the left should be stripped off.

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