RE: [cp-patches] RFC: prevent URL degeneration - v3

[Jeroen Frijters]

Robert Schuster wrote:
> However I consider these tests wrong because they violate the 
> URL spec.

Some people (like me) believe it is more important, in some cases, to be
compatible with the reference implementation than to the spec.

> proto:////p1/p2
> 
> is not the same as
> 
> proto://p1/p2
> 
> Furthermore this is exactly the bug which causes trouble in 
> our XML parser and since the other implementation contains it
> too I send Sun a problem report.
> 
> I am going to fix these tests afterwards. Obviously they will 
> then fail on Sun-based VMs until they fix the problem, too.

It's highly unlikely Sun will fix their code, see also:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4737160
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4110155
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4447088
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=5014591
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=5018803

Regards,
Jeroen