[whatwg] Web Sockets URL

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Alexey Proskuryakov wrote:
>
> Currently, the Web Sockets API spec says that the WebSocket.URL 
> attribute must just return a value that was passed to the WebSocket 
> constructor. This doesn't match how many other url accessors work, and 
> consequentially, it doesn't match what currently happens in WebKit.
> 
> I think it makes more sense to return a resolved URL - e.g. (new
> WebSocket("ws://host/path/../")).URL would return "ws://host/".

I've changed the spec to say that the .URL attribute must return the same 
string as is actually used by the protocol spec (i.e. post-resolve). 
Whether this does "../" resolution will depend on what the IRI specs end 
up saying when we switch to relying on those.

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