def urljoin(base, url, allow_fragments=True):
"""Join a base URL and a possibly relative URL to form an absolute
interpretation of the latter."""
if not base:
return url
if not url:
return base
base, url, _coerce_result = _coerce_args(base, url)
bscheme, bnetloc, bpath, bparams, bquery, bfragment = \
urlparse(base, '', allow_fragments)
scheme, netloc, path, params, query, fragment = \
urlparse(url, bscheme, allow_fragments)
if scheme != bscheme or scheme not in uses_relative:
return _coerce_result(url)
if scheme in uses_netloc:
if netloc:
return _coerce_result(urlunparse((scheme, netloc, path,
params, query, fragment)))
netloc = bnetloc
if not path and not params:
path = bpath
params = bparams
if not query:
query = bquery
return _coerce_result(urlunparse((scheme, netloc, path,
params, query, fragment)))
base_parts = bpath.split('/')
if base_parts[-1] != '':
# the last item is not a directory, so will not be taken into account
# in resolving the relative path
del base_parts[-1]
# for rfc3986, ignore all base path should the first character be root.
if path[:1] == '/':
segments = path.split('/')
else:
segments = base_parts + path.split('/')
# filter out elements that would cause redundant slashes on re-joining
# the resolved_path
segments[1:-1] = filter(None, segments[1:-1])
resolved_path = []
for seg in segments:
if seg == '..':
try:
resolved_path.pop()
except IndexError:
# ignore any .. segments that would otherwise cause an IndexError
# when popped from resolved_path if resolving for rfc3986
pass
elif seg == '.':
continue
else:
resolved_path.append(seg)
if segments[-1] in ('.', '..'):
# do some post-processing here. if the last segment was a relative dir,
# then we need to append the trailing '/'
resolved_path.append('')
return _coerce_result(urlunparse((scheme, netloc, '/'.join(
resolved_path) or '/', params, query, fragment)))