Fred Drake wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:01 PM, O.R.Senthil Kumaran > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BTW, commonly when someone writes 'www.python.org', we tend to > > understand that he is referring to net_loc. Is it not? > > And also, when we type 'www.python.org' at Address Location in the > > Browser, it automatically gets translated to http://www.python.org as > > the full url and www.python.org becomes net_loc in this case. > > There are two cases here: > > 1. Relative URLs in a context that has a base URL (inside a resource > loaded from a URL, or in an (X)HTML document that includes a <base> > element). > > 2. Abreviated URLs in a user interface that implies no context with a > base URL (like the browser's address bar). > > I'd suggest that these are completely different. urlsplit and > urlparse support 1. If we want the second, that should be a separate > function. It would be reasonable to add that to the urlparse module > (urllib.parse in Python 3).
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). Robert Brewer [EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://www.cherrypy.org/browser/branches/815-urljoin/cherrypy/wsgiserver /__init__.py#L247 for an implementation. _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com