bug#17958: SHR: base handling broken (shr-parse-base, shr-expand-url)

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:50:20 +0000 Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> wrote: 

>> Thus, I suggest changing shr-expand-url to return not the 0th element
>> of the (parsed) ‘base’ (see below), but the 3rd.

...

IS>     With the patch MIMEd (which also fixes the issue described in my
IS>     initial bug report), it instead gives what I deem to be the
IS>     correct result:

IS> (let ((shr-base (shr-parse-base "http://example.org/";)))
IS>   (shr-tag-base '((:href . "/relative")))
IS>   shr-base)
IS> ;; ⇒
IS> ("http://example.org"; "/" "http" "http://example.org/relative";)

This seems reasonable to me as far as usability but Lars will have to
review the patch for correctness.

Ted