bug#12827: [PATCH] Tweak web modules, support relative URIs

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 13 March 2013 19:05, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote:
> What's the status here, Daniel?  Would be nice to fix this bug one way
> or another for 2.0.8.

Latest work attached, updated as per discussion with Mark.

Still missing #:base-uri (RFC 3986 #5.2) and some polish.

For the docs, I believe it best to follow the RFC and leave the
existing section on URIs as-is, followed by a new section introducing
the other types.  This will help avoid conflating the two concepts of
URI and URI-reference.

Regarding the interface.  There is now an abundance of constructors
and string converters, one for each specific type.  It is also
somewhat inconsistent in that there is no need for multiple accessors
or ‘uri*->string’ procedures.  An alternative interface might employ a
single constructor similar to ‘make-time’, using a set of
variables/symbols to represent the desired type:

 build-uri-reference arg ... [#:type=‘uri’]
 string->uri-reference str [type]

where TYPE is one of ‘uri’, ‘uri-reference’, ‘relative-ref’,
‘absolute-uri’.  Perhaps even have a single ‘build-uri’ with these
semantics.

Comments, ideas?

0001-web-add-support-for-URI-reference.patch
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