[Python-Dev] Possible bug in urllib.urljoin (original) (raw)

John J Lee jjl at pobox.com
Sun Sep 25 22:34:39 CEST 2005

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Andrew Edmondson wrote:

We've found a problem using urllib.urljoin when upgrading from python 2.3 to 2.4. It no longer joins a particular corner case of URLs correctly (we think!).

The code appears to follow the algorithm (from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1808.txt) for resolving urls almost exacty... [...] Can you tell me if this was a deliberate decision to move from following the algorithm? If so then we'll work around it.

I don't know if it was done right, but this came in at revision 1.41 of urlparse.py -- the commit comment is actually in 1.42:

| Make urlparse RFC 2396 compliant. | Closes bug #450225 (thanks Michael Stone).

So I guess the answer to your question is "yes".

http://python.org/sf/450225

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt

John

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