142280 - relative URLs with http:/path

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

"http:/file.htm" means the same as "/file.htm"

Comment 1

[Andreas Otte]

Actually no!" RFC 2396 cleary marks these kind of relative urls as deprecated.
The scheme now clearly defines an absolute url. Verfiying parsers should throw
an error, Mozilla handles it as an absolute url, so http:/file.htm is not the
same as /file.htm. Browsers *can* implement the support for these no longer
valid urls, mozilla currently does not, the discussion is going on.

Comment 2

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

Andreas: I know. This bug is to collect all the pages which still use broken
URLs (whyever they do, I may never find out), for that it's a TechEvang and has
the "meta" Keyword

Comment 3

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

the patch is in, so the run on all this bugs can start, as soon as we have new
builds ready...

Comment 4

[Andreas Otte]

The final part catching redirections and other stuff is in ... time for bug 
retirement ... Kai?

Comment 5

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

all dependencies fixed, so this is fixed too :)