Le vendredi 03 novembre 2023 à 13:49 -0400, Nathan a écrit : > > This pushes the limits of my understanding of URIs, as I did not > > know > > we had to consider '%2E%2E' the same as '..'. However, the RFC is > > not > > very clear: > > I wasn't able to find anything that MANDATED any normalization at > all, either before or after Relative Resolution. It is possible that > treating %2E as a literal dot in resolve-relative-reference could > count as unwanted normalization. But it's a safe operation in terms > of URI equivalence* and I think users would be less confused to have > %2E%2E disappear than to have it remain. > > Also, what if the resolve-relative-reference procedure didn't treat > %2E as a dot? > There isn't a uri-normalize procedure users can call afterwards to > fix that. > And there isn't a version of uri-decode that allows selectively > decoding JUST the dot characters. > Users would have to write a lot of code themselves to get proper > relative-resolution, so we should do it for them.
First of all, I just noticed I spelled your name wrong, sorry. I’m convinced the decision you made to consider '.' and '%2E' equivalent is the correct one, if that was not clear for everyone. Best regards, Vivien
