Sounds to me like maybe we should be looking the the URI package, which
is after all claimed to be rfc compliant. Has anyone already done this? 

Daniel

Bert Freudenberg <bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> wrote:
> The test does not look right to me. I have not looked at the original 
> changeset, maybe it is still correct.
> 
> According to the RFC, as soon as a scheme like "ftp:" is in an URL, 
> this constitutes an absolute location. This means that "ftp:xyz" would 
> be equivalent to "ftp://xyz/". The problem is that older browsers did 
> that wrong. It's been corrected for a while, though,  in Mozilla at 
> least.
> 
>  From http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2396.html
> 
>     "<scheme>:<scheme-specific-part>
> 
>     An absolute URI contains the name of the scheme being used (<scheme>)
>     followed by a colon (":") and then a string (the <scheme-specific-
>     part>) whose interpretation depends on the scheme.
>     [...]
>     Relative URI references are distinguished from absolute URI in that
>     they do not begin with a scheme name. "
> 
> 
> Am Montag, 21.07.03 um 11:03 Uhr schrieb marcus at ira.uka.de:
> 
> >
> > Ok, I added the tests to the baseimage tests package.
> > Problem: after filing in your urlWithPassword-ls changeset, I get two
> > failing tests:
> >
> > testRelativeFTP2
> >
> >         baseUrl _ 'ftp://somewhere/some/dir/?query#fragment' asUrl.
> >         url _ baseUrl newFromRelativeText: 'ftp:xyz'.
> >
> >         self assert: url toText =  'ftp://somewhere/some/dir/xyz'.
> >
> >
> > url toText is  'ftp://somewhere/some/dir//xyz'
> >
> >
> > testRelativeHTTP
> >
> >
> >         baseUrl _ 'http://some.where/some/dir?query1#fragment1' asUrl.
> >         url _ baseUrl newFromRelativeText:
> > '../another/dir/?query2#fragment2'.
> >
> >         self assert: url toText =
> > 'http://some.where/another/dir/?query2#fragment2'.
> >
> >
> > Url toText is  'http://some.where/some/another/dir/?query2#fragment2'
> >
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