a case of a .. too many
Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@math.uio.no)
Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:32:18 +0200
The document
http://wp1.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?F1=Taxes+and+Investing&RELEVANCE_RANK=0&HIT_TEMP_NAME=..%2Fdocs%2Fwp-srv%2Ftemplates%2Fglassman%2Ftaxes.tmpl&DEFAULT_OPERATOR=and&TOTAL_HITLIST=1000&DB_NAME=glassman&FIELD_SORT=MAN_SORT_DATE%2FD
refers to several docs in ../.. . Since the base url is
http://wp1.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search this is above the root of
the server -> http://wp1.washingtonpost.com/../. Netscape removes the
leading '..' in such cases. I've notified bugs@netscape.com, but I
don't know if they will consider this a misfeature or not. Maybe the
URL theorists on this list will have something to say about what the
correct behaviour for such references is? Me, I tend to think it's
silly to refer to something above the root of the server.
DB<1> $base=url 'http://wp1.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search';
DB<2> $url=url('../../wp-srv/business/longterm/glassman/taxes/philan.htm',$base)
DB<3> p $url->abs($base)
http://wp1.washingtonpost.com/../wp-srv/business/longterm/glassman/taxes/philan.
Nicolai