Re: [jira] Resolved: (HTTPCLIENT-861) URI reference resolution fails examples in RFC 3986

[Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org>]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 02:11:39PM +0200, Johannes Koch wrote:
> Oleg,
>
> Oleg Kalnichevski (JIRA) schrieb:
>>      [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-861?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
>>
>> Oleg Kalnichevski resolved HTTPCLIENT-861.
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>>
>>     Resolution: Won't Fix
>>
>> Johannes,
>>
>> I get 6 test failures locally. However in all 6 cases HttpClient merely passes the call onto JRE's method URI URI#resolve(URI uri). The URI resolution itself is handled by JRE code. I am afraid there is simply not much we can do about it. This problem should be reported to OpenJDK / Sun / Oracle developers.
>>
>> Alternatively one could consider contributing a new implementation of that method completely independent from JRE code, but I personally think we ought not duplicate URI functionality provided by the platform.
>
> the resolve methods in the URIUtils class were introduced as a  
> work-around for known bugs in the URI.resolve() methods. Some of these  
> bugs were reported to Sun many years ago. And there's not much hope that  
> they will be fixed soon.
>
> I can try to create more work-arounds so that the tests pass.
>

Sure thing. As long as people are willing to contribute code along with accompanying test cases ('scratch their own itch', so to speak) I will be willing to review contributions and commit them to the repository.

Oleg

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