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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/urllib/parse.py | 26 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/parse.py b/Lib/urllib/parse.py index 3a8fd60..8883ff0 100644 --- a/Lib/urllib/parse.py +++ b/Lib/urllib/parse.py @@ -1,7 +1,29 @@ """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. """ import sys |