Re: My Boost.URL review

From: Seth (bugs_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-08-22 03:09:21

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022, at 4:57 AM, Seth via Boost wrote:
> Whereas Boost URL allows the user to specify the intended semantics
>
>  - parse_uri("localhost:5555") gives {scheme="localhost", path="5555"}
>  - parse_relative_reference("localhost:5555") gives an error (leftover)
>  - the RFC specifies[1] how to fix the input to allow `:` to appear in the
>    first elements of a relative-path reference: 
>     parse_relative_reference("./localhost:5555") gives {path="./localhost:5555"}

Somehow forgot to add the most obvious match here - since it's not a URL:

 - parse_authority("localhost:5555") which gives {host="localhost",port="5555"} while also giving additional accessors like port_number, has_port etc.