[whatwg] URL standard: Query string parsing; host parsing

[Julian Reschke]

On 2013-03-13 21:14, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 3/13/13 4:02 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> On 2013-03-13 18:38, poccil14 at gmail.com wrote:
>>> jar:http://example.com/jar?x=1!/com/example/Foo.class
>>>
>>> is parsed in the URI standards as:
>>>
>>> scheme - jar
>>> scheme-specific part - http://example.com/jar?x=1!/com/example/Foo.class
>>
>> I have no idea what you're talking about, see
>> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc3986.html#rfc.section.3>.
>>
>> This will parse into:
>>
>> scheme: jar
>> hier-part: http://example.com/jar
>> query: x=1!/com/example/Foo.class
>
> I should note that jar: URIs are ... special.
>
> For example, given a base of
>
>    jar:http://example.com/jar?x=1!/com/example/Foo.class
>
> the relative URI "Bar.class" should, as far as I know, resolve to:
>
>    jar:http://example.com/jar?x=1!/com/example/Bar.class
>
> What that means for parsing them, I cannot say...

Under RFC 3986, it would resolve to

   jar:http://example.com/Bar.class

Looks like a broken scheme to me.

Best regards, Julian