urllib interpretation of URL with ".."

[sergio]

John Nagle wrote:

>  In Python, of course, "urlparse.urlparse", which is
> the main function used to disassemble a URL, has no idea whether it's
> being used by a client or a server, so it, reasonably enough, takes option
> 1.

>>> import urlparse
>>> base="http://somesite.com/level1/"
>>> path="../page.html"
>>> urlparse.urljoin(base,path)
'http://somesite.com/page.html'
>>> base="http://somesite.com/"
>>> urlparse.urljoin(base,path)
'http://somesite.com/../page.html'

For me this is a bug and is very annoying because I can't simply trip ../
from path because base could have a level.


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Best regards,
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Sérgio M. B.