Mercurial > cpython-lru_cache-weakref
changeset 60654:7b0656929cdb legacy-trunk
Fix Issue5650 - Update the RFC List in the urlparse module.
| author | Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| date | Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:30:53 +0000 |
| parents | 25e35e3838c7 |
| children | 384dd449a4ee |
| files | Lib/urlparse.py |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/Lib/urlparse.py Sat Apr 17 05:26:26 2010 +0000 +++ b/Lib/urlparse.py Sat Apr 17 14:30:53 2010 +0000 @@ -1,7 +1,30 @@ """Parse (absolute and relative) URLs. -See RFC 1808: "Relative Uniform Resource Locators", by R. Fielding, -UC Irvine, June 1995. +urlparse module is based upon the following RFC specifications. + +RFC 3986 (STD66): "Uniform Resource Identifiers" by T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding +and L. Masinter, January 2005. + +RFC 2732 : "Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's by R.Hinden, B.Carpenter +and L.Masinter, December 1999. + +RFC2396: "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)": Generic Syntax by T. +Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, and L. Masinter, August 1998. + +RFC2368: "The mailto URL scheme", by P.Hoffman , L Masinter, J. Zwinski, July 1998. + +RFC 1808: "Relative Uniform Resource Locators", by R. Fielding, UC Irvine, June +1995. + +RFC1738: "Uniform Resource Locators (URL)" by T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter, M. +McCahill, December 1994 + +RFC 3986 is considered the current standard and any changes to urlparse module +should conform to this. urlparse module is not entirely compliant with this. +The defacto scenarios of parsing are considered sometimes and for backward +compatiblity purposes, older RFC uses of parsing are retained. The testcases in +test_urlparse.py provides a good indicator of parsing behavior. + """ __all__ = ["urlparse", "urlunparse", "urljoin", "urldefrag",