Converting relative URLs to absolute?

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#1

Hi,

Whilst porting some perl code which uses the URI module:

  # convert a relative url to an absolute url
  my $val = "../some/relative/url.html";
  my $target_url = "http://www.somehost.net/blah/page.html";
  my $uri = URI->new_abs($val, $target_url);

  # $uri is 'http://www.somehost.net/some/relative/url.html'

- I discovered that there seems to be no standard library equivalent in ruby, i.e. for converting relative URIs to absolute ones... or am I just not looking in the right places? (I looked on Google, ruby-doc.org, in 'Pickaxe', etc.)

Thanks,

Nick

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#2

URI does this

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'uri'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> original_uri = URI.parse "http://www.somehost.net/blah/page.html"
=> #<URI::HTTP:0x19999c URL:http://www.somehost.net/blah/page.html>
irb(main):003:0> puts original_uri + "../some/relative/url.html"
http://www.somehost.net/some/relative/url.html
=> nil

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On 29 Jun 2005, at 18:05, Nick Woolley wrote:

Hi,

Whilst porting some perl code which uses the URI module:

# convert a relative url to an absolute url
my $val = "../some/relative/url.html";
my $target_url = "http://www.somehost.net/blah/page.html";
my $uri = URI->new_abs($val, $target_url);

# $uri is 'http://www.somehost.net/some/relative/url.html'

- I discovered that there seems to be no standard library equivalent in ruby, i.e. for converting relative URIs to absolute ones... or am I just not looking in the right places? (I looked on Google, ruby-doc.org, in 'Pickaxe', etc.)

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