Apache2::URI seems to be the right thing to use.

I guess you should be able to quickly write your own small helper
functions to allow
relative URL without heading slashes.

J.

On 11 December 2010 10:29,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> $r->redirect('/other.html');
>
> causes the HTTP headers to be sent as (at least on ApacheHandler):
>
> HTTP/1.1 302 Found
> Location: /other.html
>
> This is in violation of the HTTP spec which says URIs need to be absolute [1].
>
>
> Now, this is probably not a very big issue since at least the few major 
> browsers I tested support it but e.g. lynx issues a "Location URL is not 
> absolute" warning. I understand that I can use internal_redirect, but I 
> prefer my clients to have a copypastable URL at all times.
>
> On a quick google, I found:
> - Apache2::URI provides $r->construct_uri, which, unfortunately, breaks when 
> the relative URL doesn't start with a slash
> - the 'URI' module (available on CPAN) might do proper merging [2]
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.30
> [2] RFC1808, section 3
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