Double-check on path in URL

Martijn Koster (m.koster@nexor.co.uk)
Tue, 20 Jun 1995 20:43:28 +0100 

Roy,

I've found another border case in URL.pm. Can you confirm the following
test cases show desired behaviour?

    $url = new URI::URL 'http://web/a';
    $url->_expect('path', 'a');
    $url = new URI::URL 'http://web/';
    $url->_expect('path', '');
    $url = new URI::URL 'http://web';
    $url->_expect('path', '');

These tests currently fail. I can fix this, but it will probably brake
some people's stuff, so I want to be quite sure before I do it. I base
the test cases on:

    # RFC 1738 says: 
    #
    #     Note that the "/" between the host (or port) and the 
    #     url-path is NOT part of the url-path.
    #
    # This may be breaking many lazy HTTP clients that do a GET
    # for the path, without using prepending the slash that 
    # HTTP servers expect, if required.

I expect I can make the full_path method add the slash if required,
seeing as 'full_path' as a concept isn't from any of the RFC's, and
specically designed to return what is required in a GET.

Comments?

-- Martijn
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