Re: URL->abs bug.

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>>>>> "Gisle" == Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no> writes:

Gisle> The reason URI::URL does this is that RFC1738 says:

Gisle>    In some cases, extra whitespace (spaces, linebreaks, tabs, etc.) may
Gisle>    need to be added to break long URLs across lines.  The whitespace
Gisle>    should be ignored when extracting the URL.

Gisle> Whitespace should not really appear in URLs.  It should have been
Gisle> encoded as '%20'.

Gisle> Does anybody think we should get rid of the whitespace remover
Gisle> in URI::URL?

I'm an RFC-kinda-guy.  So, count me as liking the current behavior.

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