Re: [xml] Relative HTTP redirects

["William M. Brack" <wbrack mmm com hk>]

Since there were no objections on the list, I have applied your
changes to nanohttp.c and committed to CVS.  Thanks for the patch.

Bill

Ian Hummel said:
> xmlNanoHTTP makes no attempt to follow http redirects if the url in
> the
> 'Location:' header is relative.  Attached is a patch that fixes it.
> It's true that returning a relative url in a location header
> violates
> HTTP.  Unfortunately, it seems this practice is encouraged in the
> IIS
> camp.
>
> If you guys decide to not commit it, how about changing the error
> message?  right now it just outputs an "Unknown IO error", with
> DEBUG_HTTP enabled, as it doesn't understand the url its trying to
> fetch
> is incomplete.  I'd be happy to take a look at that, could someone
> let
> me know the proper way to output errors from inside the lib?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ian Hummel