Hello, BaseX team,
I have found recently, that the web:forward function (in both BaseX 12.1 and 12.4, have not checked with older versions), when called with an absolute URL, triggers an error in jetty (see below).

Best regards,
Jan Ctibor

P. S. 
Is the web:forwardfunction actually supposed to also work with absolute URLs, or only with relative URLs within the server?


Improper use? Potential bug? Your feedback is welcome:
Contact: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de
Version: BaseX 12.4
Java: Red Hat, Inc., 25.0.3
OS: Linux, amd64
Stack Trace:
org.eclipse.jetty.http.BadMessageException: 400: Ambiguous URI empty segment
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.Dispatcher.forward(Dispatcher.java:186)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.Dispatcher.forward(Dispatcher.java:145)
       at org.basex.http.HTTPConnection.forward(HTTPConnection.java:260)
       at org.basex.http.restxq.RestXqResponse.finish(RestXqResponse.java:155)
       at org.basex.http.web.WebResponse.create(WebResponse.java:63)
       at org.basex.http.restxq.RestXqServlet.run(RestXqServlet.java:70)
       at org.basex.http.BaseXServlet.service(BaseXServlet.java:68)
       at jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:587)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.servlet.ServletHolder$NotAsync.service(ServletHolder.java:1415)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:783)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:528)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:125)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:603)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:124)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:195)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:612)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:193)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1047)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:162)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:483)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:160)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:589)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:160)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:962)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:123)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:1731)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.HttpChannel$RequestDispatchable.dispatch(HttpChannel.java:1586)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.HttpChannel.dispatch(HttpChannel.java:737)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:520)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.ee9.nested.ContextHandler$CoreContextHandler$CoreToNestedHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:3059)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:1226)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:197)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.server.internal.HttpChannelState$HandlerInvoker.run(HttpChannelState.java:788)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.server.internal.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:420)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.server.internal.HttpConnection$FillableCallback.succeeded(HttpConnection.java:1809)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:105)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.io.SelectableChannelEndPoint$1.run(SelectableChannelEndPoint.java:54)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.AdaptiveExecutionStrategy.runTask(AdaptiveExecutionStrategy.java:492)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.AdaptiveExecutionStrategy.epcRunTask(AdaptiveExecutionStrategy.java:428)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.AdaptiveExecutionStrategy.consumeTask(AdaptiveExecutionStrategy.java:401)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.AdaptiveExecutionStrategy.tryProduce(AdaptiveExecutionStrategy.java:255)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.AdaptiveExecutionStrategy.run(AdaptiveExecutionStrategy.java:204)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.ReservedThreadExecutor$ReservedThread.run(ReservedThreadExecutor.java:317)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:1009)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$Runner.doRunJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:1240)
       at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$Runner.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:1194)
       at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1474)