Bug #4724: URI.extract parses HREFs in single quotes incorrectly

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18 revision 30909) [x86_64-darwin10.7.0]

[matthewvermaak (matt vermaak)]

require 'uri'; URI.extract(%Q{'http://host.com/link'}, ['http'])
=> ["http://host.com/link'"]

Did not expect the trailing single quote. This is reproducible in Ruby 1.8.7

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

URI arrows single quoete in its path or query, so it's spec.
See also RFC2396 (and RFC3986).