[cpp-netlib-devel] URI status

[Jeroen H. <vex...@gm...>]

Hi guys,

It's been a while since you've heard from me, and first of all -though
somewhat late- a Happy New Year. I've been reading up on the RFC and
Spirit documentation (Spirit is pure genius by the way). I'm now
working towards a full RFC compatible parser[1]. In doing so I've
found the newer RFC3986 is much more of a pleasure to work with, and
the specific HTTP parser isn't needed any more.

I've noticed a couple of things though, and I'm uncertain on how to
solve them. First of all, ports, there is the difference between the
parsed port, and the actual port to use when connecting, based on
default ports. The google-url has a port and EffectiveIntPort
function, but this information is also needed when normalising the
URI. Secondly, the parser knows the difference between no fragment,
and an empty fragment, but the current API does not expose this. Would
exposing the optional<string_type>'s be a solution?

Jeroen Habraken

[1] This is currently not committed to git yet, I have still to
properly figure out GitHub, and fork the right branch