In many filesystems “..” corresponds to parent directory. How is it with URLs? I saw some examples behaving according to this scheme, but is this a standard (RFC)?
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In many filesystems “..” corresponds to parent directory. How is it with URLs? I saw some examples behaving according to this scheme, but is this a standard (RFC)?
Of course this is a standard http://www.w3.org/Addressing/rfc1808.txt describes it, the
segment/..is removed iteratively from left to right.