Re: (ITS#5117) test049/test050 failures

[hyc@symas.com]

hyc@symas.com wrote:
> hyc@symas.com wrote:
>> I see the same result on FreeBSD 6.2. It appears to be because libfetch was 
>> detected by configure and used here, and libfetch failed to open the FILE URLs 
>> that load the necessary schema.
> 
> The test script uses relative URLs (RFC1808) which our liblutil stuff supports, 
> but apparently libfetch only knows how to parse absolute URLs (RFC1738) - see 
> their CVS
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libfetch/fetch.c?rev=1.38
> 
> Seems to me to be a deficiency in libfetch, but I guess we can rework the 
> scripts to use absolute FILE URLs here.

Dunno if it's worth reporting this upstream, but libfetch accepts relative 
paths like this
	file://./foo/bar   -> "./foo/bar"
which violates both RFC1738 and RFC1808 (and RFC2396).

I.e., when the "//" authority-spec is present the path must be absolute.

Probably, since libfetch provides no mechanism for defining a base URI, it 
should just never accept relative paths.
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