On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > > > Of course, last time I forgot that the BASE href is supposed to be > > > absolute. While Opera apparently has no problem with it being relative, > > > other browsers such as Firefox are stricter about it. > > > > Errrr... I think you are talking about _full_ vs. _absolute_, not > > _absolute_ vs. _relative_, see below. > > No, I actually mean absolute vs relative in the URI sense, not in the > Perl/CGI sense. > > http://www.example.com/ is absolute, / is relative No, "/" is not relative, it is absolute, because it begins with '/'. See RFC 1808 (Relative Uniform Resource Locators): 2.2. BNF for Relative URLs [...] URL = ( absoluteURL | relativeURL ) [ "#" fragment ] absoluteURL = generic-RL | ( scheme ":" *( uchar | reserved ) ) generic-RL = scheme ":" relativeURL relativeURL = net_path | abs_path | rel_path net_path = "//" net_loc [ abs_path ] abs_path = "/" rel_path rel_path = [ path ] [ ";" params ] [ "?" query ] (which means that CGI.pm -full is 'net_path', and -absolute is 'abs_path', and -relative is 'rel_path') [...] 4. Resolving Relative URLs [...] Step 4: If the embedded URL path is preceded by a slash "/", the path is not relative and we skip to Step 7. -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
