When using request absolute URI Thin leaves PATH_INFO empty

[ibc]

I'm testing Rack with Thin 1.2.5 using both HTTP queries with relative URI and absolute URI.
I use map "/" in my Rack builder so it gets any request.

However when I get the value of env["PATH_INFO"] I get an empty string when using absolute URI:

a) Relative URI:

GET /pres-rules/mydoc.xml HTTP/1.1

=> env['PATH_INFO'] = "/pres-rules/mydoc.xml"

b) Absolute URI:

GET http://127.0.0.1:9292/pres-rules/mydoc.xml HTTP/1.1

=> env['PATH_INFO'] = ""

This doesn't occur using webrick.

PS: As per RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1) a HTTP request allows absolute request uri:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-5.1.2

GET http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TheProject.html HTTP/1.1

[macournoyer]

Indeed, it's a known bug (or unsupported feature if you will). Web browsers never use absolute urls so it's an edge case. Why are you sending this request?

[ibc]

Thanks for the response. I don't use Thin for web applications but for XCAP (RFC 4825) which is XPath over HTTP (more or less). It's still a new protocol and I don't know if vendors will implement relative or absolute URI's in the HTTP requests (I expect they will always use relative uri however).

So I have seen no http client using absolute uri yet.

[scomma]

I can't believe nobody else runs into this problem when using thin in conjunction with the proxy.pac file?! In which case Rails ends up serving the root page to all requests (including assets).

Started GET "" for 127.0.0.1 at 2012-11-08 02:36:45 +0700
Processing by PagesController#show as */*
  Parameters: {"id"=>"home"}
  Rendered pages/home.html.erb within layouts/application (0.0ms)
Completed 200 OK in 33ms (Views: 33.1ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms)


Started GET "" for 127.0.0.1 at 2012-11-08 02:36:45 +0700
Processing by PagesController#show as */*
  Parameters: {"id"=>"home"}
  Rendered pages/home.html.erb within layouts/application (0.0ms)
Completed 200 OK in 6ms (Views: 5.4ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms)


Started GET "" for 127.0.0.1 at 2012-11-08 02:36:45 +0700
Processing by PagesController#show as HTML
  Parameters: {"id"=>"home"}
  Rendered pages/home.html.erb within layouts/application (0.0ms)
Completed 200 OK in 4ms (Views: 3.8ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms)


Started GET "" for 127.0.0.1 at 2012-11-08 02:36:45 +0700
Processing by PagesController#show as */*
  Parameters: {"id"=>"home"}
  Rendered pages/home.html.erb within layouts/application (0.0ms)
Completed 200 OK in 5ms (Views: 5.2ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms)

[jorgemanrubia]

I experienced this issue too.

[macournoyer]

It should be fixed on v2 branch or gem install thin --pre if you want to give it a try.

[jorgemanrubia]

Thanks @macournoyer. I will try