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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/liburlparse.tex | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/liburlparse.tex b/Doc/lib/liburlparse.tex index bfd1c0d..9582bbe 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/liburlparse.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/liburlparse.tex @@ -14,9 +14,11 @@ components (addessing scheme, network location, path etc.), to combine the components back into a URL string, and to convert a ``relative URL'' to an absolute URL given a ``base URL''. -The module has been designed to match the current Internet draft on -Relative Uniform Resource Locators (and discovered a bug in an earlier -draft!). +The module has been designed to match the Internet RFC on Relative +Uniform Resource Locators (and discovered a bug in an earlier +draft!). Refer to RFC 1808\index{RFC!1808} for details on relative +URLs and RFC 1738\index{RFC!1738} for information on basic URL +syntax. It defines the following functions: @@ -54,7 +56,7 @@ support them. The default value for this argument is \code{1}. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{urlunparse}{tuple} -Construct a URL string from a tuple as returned by \code{urlparse}. +Construct a URL string from a tuple as returned by \code{urlparse()}. This may result in a slightly different, but equivalent URL, if the URL that was parsed originally had redundant delimiters, e.g. a ? with an empty query (the draft states that these are equivalent). @@ -80,5 +82,5 @@ yields the string \end{verbatim}\ecode % The \var{allow_fragments} argument has the same meaning as for -\code{urlparse}. +\code{urlparse()}. \end{funcdesc} |