[Web-SIG] urlparse method behaviour when handing abs/rel urls

O.R.Senthil Kumaran orsenthil at gmail.com
Sun Jun 29 13:43:03 CEST 2008


* scriptor Robert Brewer, explico 
> 
> There's even a 3rd case: HTTP's Request-URI. For example, '//path' must
> be treated as an abs_path consisting of two path_segments ['', 'path'],
> not a net_loc, since the Request_URI must be one of ("*" | absoluteURI |
> abs_path | authority).
> 
> See
> http://www.cherrypy.org/browser/branches/815-urljoin/cherrypy/wsgiserver
> /__init__.py#L247 for an implementation.

Thanks for passing on this note and the example. 
Gives an idea of changes required in urlparse modules for RFC2396 compliance 

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