problem with relative url expansion

Andrew Cassin (acas@catt.citri.edu.au)
Fri, 17 May 1996 10:59:23 +1000 (EST) 

fellow libwww'ers,

what is $url->abs supposed to return when 

$url = new URI::URL "ftp:forms/96.pdf", "http://www.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/admin.html";

???  

Netscape (magically) computes a working url 
(http://www.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/forms/96.pdf), but libwww-perl5b12 returns the 
partial unmodified. 

Any ideas/comments?

(the source to url above might be a good test case... :-)

ACAS