Dave Tweed wrote:

>> To find out whether a path is relative or absolute depends on what
>> kind of paths you can expect on the input. If it's either a complete
>> http URL (starting with "http:") or a relative path, then that's it:
>> check for a starting "http:".
> 
> The presence or absence of the optional scheme field does not
> determine whether a URL path is absolute or relative -- it's the
> leading slash after that (single or double) that tells you.

That depends on what the specific spec of the OP determines. It could
very well be that a path "/NormallyConsideredAbsolutePath/file.ext" is
considered a "relative" path, relative to a base path, say
"http://myserver/" (or even relative to
"http://myserver/MyTopLevelDir/"). It all depends on the specific
situation and how the "relative" paths are created.

This also determines to what depths he needs to go in parsing the paths.

Gerhard
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