Andreas Otte wrote,
> Now, that is very interesting!!!
>
> So basically one of the authors of RFC2396 says, some examples of
> relative url resolution in the rfc are wrong,

To be precise, just one of the examples is wrong.

> they are not conforming to  the algorithm which is conforming to RFC
> 1808 and so should the examples.

Not quite. The RFC 2396 algorithm isn't exactly the same as that in
RFC 1808. But it does agree with RFC 1808 on the one example I gave.

> That would be a nice resolution of some differences between the
> conflicting rfcs.

Implement the RFC 2396 algorithm to the letter, and validate it
against the RFC 2396 examples, but expect exactly one failure.

Cheers,


Miles

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