Allow for unnormalized path prefixes like /vsitar/ #208
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
The logic in make_absolute_href uses os.path.abspath, which normalizes paths. This lets us translate joined paths like /home/user/../catalog.json into proper paths. However, normalizing the path will also modify the root path being joined to in ways that may not be desirable. Specifically in the case of a /vsitar/ prefix, the double slashes that are required for proper GDAL reading are removed by normalization. This commit modifies the logic in make_absolute_href to detect when the original start path is modified by a call to abspath, and if so replaces the modified version with the original version.
Fixes #180