[racket-dev] Potential bug in path->url

I looked at your patch and it looks good overall. Could you add a test
case or two to collects/tests/url.rkt (around line 184) and verify
that the other test cases continue to pass?

Jay

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Philippe Mechaï
<philippe.mechai at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think there is a bug in the path->url function (from net/url).
>
>> (url->string (path->url "/tmp"))
> "file:///tmp"
>> (url->string (path->url "/tmp/"))
> "file:///tmp"
>
> As you can see the resulting URL is the same even if the path is a directory
> path.
> I believe that in the second case the URL should be "file:///tmp/".
>
> This lead to an unexpected behaviour when using the result of path->url with
> combine-url/relative:
>
>> (url->string (combine-url/relative (path->url "/tmp/") "foo.txt"))
> "file:///foo.txt"
>
> I've made a fix and created the pull request #166 on GitHub
> (https://github.com/plt/racket/pull/166)
>
> Could you please merge this change ?
>
> Also, it should be noted that the path->url and url->path are not symmetric
> as one could expect.
> Before my modification:
>   (url->path (path->url "/tmp/")) => #<path:/tmp>
> After:
>   (url->path (path->url "/tmp/")) => #<path:/tmp/.>
>
> I don't think it is a real problem but I thought it was worth mentioning.
>
> Regards,
> Philippe Mechaï
>
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