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

Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoermi at gmx.net
Wed Mar 13 13:43:36 PDT 2013


* Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>On 3/13/13 4:23 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Under RFC 3986, it would resolve to
>>
>>    jar:http://example.com/Bar.class
>
>If you assume that this is a hierarchical scheme and that the hierarchy 
>is in some particular place, no?  Why is that assumption being made?

Turning relative references into absolute ones is a generic operation
that works the same for all schemes, as far as RFC 1808 (published in
1995) and its successors are concerned.
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