Michael Urman writes:
> Ah, but how do you know when that's wrong? At least under ftp:// your
> root is often a mid-level directory until you change up out of it.
> http:// will tend to treat the targets as roots, but I don't know that
> there's any requirement for a /.. to be meaningless (even if it often
> is).
ftp and http schemes both have authority ("host") components, so the
meaning of ".." path components is defined in the same way for both by
section 5 of RFC 3986.
Of course an FTP server is not bound to interpret the protocol so as
to mimic URL semantics. But that's a different question.
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