[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of POJO Server] - Re: Regression on VirtualFile.toURL()

[adrian@jboss.org]

"alesj" wrote : 
  | All I'm saying is what does the spec say (if it says anything at all).
  | 

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
anonymous wrote : 
  | 5.2. Resolving Relative References to Absolute Form
  | 
  | ..blah..
  | 
  | 6) If this step is reached, then we are resolving a relative-path
  |       reference.  The relative path needs to be merged with the base
  |       URI's path.  Although there are many ways to do this, we will
  |       describe a simple method using a separate string buffer.
  | 
  |       a) All but the last segment of the base URI's path component is
  |          copied to the buffer.  In other words, any characters after the
  |          last (right-most) slash character, if any, are excluded.
  | 

So:

/a/b/c + d = /a/b/d
/a/b/c/ + d = /a/b/c/d

and hence the change in behaviour of the relative url resolution.

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