new URI("http://example.com/foo#bar").resolve("")

[Jack Bates]

Thanks Michael

On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 12:16 +0000, Michael McMahon wrote:
> Jack,
> 
> 6920138 is the reference for this bug.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael.
> 
> Jack Bates wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 11:20 +0000, Michael McMahon wrote:
> >   
> >> I don't think this is a bug. Everything to the
> >> right of the final "/" in the original URI is discarded when resolving
> >> against any relative URI.
> >>     
> >
> > I think you're referring to step 6a) in RFC2396 section 5.2,
> >
> >       a) All but the last segment of the base URI's path component is
> >          copied to the buffer.  In other words, any characters after the
> >          last (right-most) slash character, if any, are excluded.
> >
> > - however step 2) is,
> >
> >    2) If the path component is empty and the scheme, authority, and
> >       query components are undefined, then it is a reference to the
> >       current document and we are done.  Otherwise, the reference URI's
> >       query and fragment components are defined as found (or not found)
> >       within the URI reference and not inherited from the base URI.
> >
> > In my example the path component is empty and the scheme, authority, and
> > query components are undefined, which is why I expect it to return,
> > "http://example.com/foo"
> >
> > There's also an example in appendix C.2,
> >
> >    An empty reference refers to the start of the current document.
> >
> >       <>            =  (current document)
> >
> > RFC3986 section 5.4.1 gives some more examples,
> >
> >    Within a representation with a well defined base URI of
> >
> >       http://a/b/c/d;p?q
> >
> >    a relative reference is transformed to its target URI as follows.
> >
> >    [...]
> >
> >    ""              =  "http://a/b/c/d;p?q"
> >
> > - however when I run,
> >
> > import java.net.URI;
> >
> > public class Test
> > {
> >   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
> >   {
> >     System.out.println(new URI("http://a/b/c/d;p?q").resolve(""));
> >   }
> > }
> >
> > - instead of "http://a/b/c/d;p?q", it outputs,
> >
> > $ java Test
> > http://a/b/c/
> > $ 
> >
> > RFC3986 section 5.2.2 also includes,
> >
> >             if (R.path == "") then
> >                T.path = Base.path;
> >
> >   
> >> So, "foo#bar" is correctly discarded, leaving the new URI
> >>
> >> http://example.com/
> >>
> >> That would be my reading of RFC2396 anyway.
> >>
> >> - Michael.
> >>
> >> Jack Bates wrote:
> >>     
> >>> new URI("http://example.com/foo#bar").resolve("")
> >>>
> >>> ^ I expect this to return "http://example.com/foo", but when I run,
> >>>
> >>> import java.net.URI;
> >>>
> >>> public class Test
> >>> {
> >>>   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
> >>>   {
> >>>     System.out.println(new URI("http://example.com/foo#bar").resolve(""));
> >>>   }
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> - it outputs,
> >>>
> >>> $ java Test
> >>> http://example.com/
> >>> $ 
> >>>
> >>> Do you think this is a bug?
> >>>
> >>> I'm running OpenJDK 6, but I can find only cosmetic differences between
> >>> URI.java in the version I'm running and URI.java in,
> >>> http://www.java.net/download/openjdk/jdk7/promoted/b80/openjdk-7-ea-src-b80-21_jan_2010.zip
> >>>
> >>> - so I assume the issue (if it is an issue) still exists?
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>     
> >
> >   
> 
>