Re: [9fans] webfsget

[uriel@cat-v.org]

I wonder if webfs should handle relative URLs at all.  It adds a lot
of complexity and I can't see any good use for it.  I suspect the idea
was to avoid other apps having to know how to parse and merge URLs,
but in practice a web browser needs to know how to do that stuff
anyway.

Did you find a good use for this feature?

Thanks

uriel - Führer der Dissident Plan 9 IRC Kids

> that is what's intended.  the base url is
> 	http://swtch.com/~rsc/
> the relative url is
> 	rsc-small.jpg
> thus
> 	webfsget -b $base $url
> 
> i've attached a proposed fix.  it appears (unless i'm reading the source
> incorrectly) that webfs didn't do relative urls unless they' were plumbed.
> 
> - erik
> 
> On Fri Jul 14 20:59:14 CDT 2006, cross@math.psu.edu wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 07:27:25PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
>> > is there something obvious wrong with this?
>> > 
>> > 	webfsget -b http://swtch.com/~rsc/ rsc-small.jpg
>> > 	webfsget: get ctl write: parseurl: relative URI given without base
>> 
>> Other than the space before the filename in the URL?
>> 
>> 	- Dan C.