Rails - Nov 2005 - Possible bug in URI.parse (path needs leading /)

I think I have found a bug in a Ruby library. I thought I would do a
sanity check in this group before taking it any further

I am processing HTML pages leached from various sites.Sometimes the
HREFs contain just a word eg <a href="XXXX">

This works fine when a user clicks on the link as the browser obviously
reconstitues the full URL eg http://www.host.com/XXXX

My code needs to do a similar reconstitution. Looks like a job for
URI.parse()

u = URI.parse(''XXXX'')

Results in 

u.path => XXXX and
u.to_s => XXXX

Now if I add a host eg u.host = ''www.host.com'' and then look
at the new
URL I get

u.host => www.host.com
u.path => XXXX
u.to_s => //www.host.comXXXX

So URI.parse is giving me ''//'' for host but no
''/'' for path. Looks a bit
inconsistent.

Peter


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