the components back into a URL string, and to convert a ``relative
URL'' to an absolute URL given a ``base URL''.
-The module has been designed to match the current Internet draft on
-Relative Uniform Resource Locators (and discovered a bug in an earlier
-draft!).
+The module has been designed to match the Internet RFC on Relative
+Uniform Resource Locators (and discovered a bug in an earlier
+draft!). Refer to RFC 1808\index{RFC!1808} for details on relative
+URLs and RFC 1738\index{RFC!1738} for information on basic URL
+syntax.
It defines the following functions:
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{urlunparse}{tuple}
-Construct a URL string from a tuple as returned by \code{urlparse}.
+Construct a URL string from a tuple as returned by \code{urlparse()}.
This may result in a slightly different, but equivalent URL, if the
URL that was parsed originally had redundant delimiters, e.g. a ? with
an empty query (the draft states that these are equivalent).
\end{verbatim}\ecode
%
The \var{allow_fragments} argument has the same meaning as for
-\code{urlparse}.
+\code{urlparse()}.
\end{funcdesc}
the components back into a URL string, and to convert a ``relative
URL'' to an absolute URL given a ``base URL''.
-The module has been designed to match the current Internet draft on
-Relative Uniform Resource Locators (and discovered a bug in an earlier
-draft!).
+The module has been designed to match the Internet RFC on Relative
+Uniform Resource Locators (and discovered a bug in an earlier
+draft!). Refer to RFC 1808\index{RFC!1808} for details on relative
+URLs and RFC 1738\index{RFC!1738} for information on basic URL
+syntax.
It defines the following functions:
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{urlunparse}{tuple}
-Construct a URL string from a tuple as returned by \code{urlparse}.
+Construct a URL string from a tuple as returned by \code{urlparse()}.
This may result in a slightly different, but equivalent URL, if the
URL that was parsed originally had redundant delimiters, e.g. a ? with
an empty query (the draft states that these are equivalent).
\end{verbatim}\ecode
%
The \var{allow_fragments} argument has the same meaning as for
-\code{urlparse}.
+\code{urlparse()}.
\end{funcdesc}