Function resolve

Resolve a URL reference against a base URL

Synopsis

            system::result
resolve(
    url_view_base const& base,
    url_view_base const& ref,
    url_base& dest);

Description

This function attempts to resolve a URL reference `ref` against the base URL `base` in a manner similar to that of a web browser resolving an anchor tag.

The base URL must satisfy the URI grammar. In other words, it must contain a scheme.

Relative references are only usable when in the context of a base absolute URI. This process of resolving a relative reference within the context of a base URI is defined in detail in rfc3986 (see below).

The resolution process works as if the relative reference is appended to the base URI and the result is normalized.

Given the input base URL, this function resolves the relative reference as if performing the following steps:

Ensure the base URI has at least a scheme

Normalizing the reference path

Merge base and reference paths

Normalize the merged path

This function places the result of the resolution into `dest`, which can be any of the url containers that inherit from url_base .

If an error occurs, the contents of `dest` is unspecified and `ec` is set.

NOTE

Abnormal hrefs where the number of ".." segments exceeds the number of segments in the base path are handled by including the unmatched ".." segments in the result, as described in Errata 4547 .

Example


url dest;
system::error_code ec;

resolve("/one/two/three", "four", dest, ec);
assert( dest.str() == "/one/two/four" );

resolve("http://example.com/", "/one", dest, ec);
assert( dest.str() == "http://example.com/one" );

resolve("http://example.com/one", "/two", dest, ec);
assert( dest.str() == "http://example.com/two" );

resolve("http://a/b/c/d;p?q", "g#s", dest, ec);
assert( dest.str() == "http://a/b/c/g#s" );

BNF


absolute-URI  = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ]

Exception Safety

Basic guarantee. Calls to allocate may throw.

Specification

5. Reference Resolution (rfc3986)