bug#8622: 24.0.50; url-parse does not implement RFC3986 5.2

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> However, as a practical issue, it might make sense to just do what
> Firefox does, which is probably "best practise".  If for no other reason
> than that Firefox does it. 
>
> It will strip "../" and "./" from the front of the local part of all
> URLs, according to tcpdump.

I've checked Chromium, too, and it does the same.

I think it might make sense for eww to strip the "../" things, and leave
url-parse at it is, since it should be standards-compliant, and the
standards don't seem to say anything about this.

I'll tweak eww.

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