Absolutizing URIs

gcarvell@bpd.treas.gov
Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:49:02 -0700 

I'm having trouble making an absolute URI from an existing URI object
and a relative link. A link to an in-page anchor such as this '#foo?'
can be absolutized with no problems, but a link like this '#foo?'
drops the parent URI's filename when made absolute.

This works as expected:

    $a = URI->new_abs('#foo', 'http://www.bar.com/file.html');
    -> http://www.bar.com/file.html#foo

But this drops the filename from the result URI:

    $b = URI->new_abs('#foo?', 'http://www.bar.com/file.html');
    -> http://www.bar.com/#foo?

Is this a bug, or just something obvious I've missed? (P.S. and don't
ask *why* people here have to make their anchors full sentences ending
in question marks...)

Thanks,
Gary