Re: [cp-patches] Re: Absolute URL parsing bug

[Andrew Haley]

Chris Burdess writes:
 > Tom Tromey wrote:
 > > Andrew> I have no opinions about the syntax of URIs, I only want to make
 > > Andrew> real-world applications work.  In this case we have to guess what 
 > > Java
 > > Andrew> libraries are doing.
 > > 
 > > FWIW we've had some patch churn in this area in the past.
 > > It would be excellent to have a set of Mauve tests so that future
 > > changes don't break things that we know need to work.  In particular
 > > at least the current case should be added.
 > 
 > Perhaps we should also get some feedback from the W3C URI team on how
 > they feel the APIs apply to the concepts?

If what W3C wants is different from what Java programmers do, then we
have to go with the API that Java programmers already use.  So, even
if W3C says something is wrong, we have to do it anyway.

Andrew.