bug#12827: [2.0.6] web client: fails to parse 404 header

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 27 November 2012 07:13, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
>> So for now, I’d go with this patch, which fixes the bug at hand:
>
> I just applied this patch as 261af76.
>

+;; emacs: (put 'declare-relative-uri-header! 'scheme-indent-function 1)
+(define (declare-relative-uri-header! name)
+  (declare-header! name
+    (lambda (str)
+      (or (string->uri str)                       ; absolute URI
+          (build-uri #f                           ; relative URI
+                     #:path str
+                     #:validate? #f)))
+    uri?
+    write-uri))
+

Sorry for late response.

Setting uri-path to str will result in wrongly constructed uri
objects.  In practice, the relative uri will often have a query part.
In theory, they may also contain any other part of the uri except
scheme (which would make them absolute).