bug#12827: [PATCH] Tweak web modules, support relative URIs

[Andy Wingo]

On Tue 21 Jun 2016 15:22, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I would like to apply this patch, to master at least.  Any objections?
>> We need documentation for the new exports, is the only missing thing.
>
> On a quick glance that looks good.  My only concern would be
> incompatibilities; for instance, the ‘content-location’ can now be an
> object that doesn’t pass ‘uri?’, IIUC.  Not sure how much of a problem
> that is.

I have applied this patch with some modifications and added docs.
Notably, the behavior of uri? is unchanged relative to master (though
there's a deprecation note; see NEWS) and string->uri keeps its old
behavior of not throwing exceptions.  I also removed the "absolute-uri?"
stuff because it was unused and it seems silly to reserve that useful
name in that way -- RFC 3986 defines "absolute uri" simply as being a
URI without a fragment.  Weird definition.

Thank you for the patch, Daniel, and thanks to Ludo and Mark for working
through this bug.

Andy