In PHP, I want to compare two relative URLs for equality. The catch: URLs may differ in percent-encoding, e.g.
/dir/file+filevs./dir/file%20file/dir/file(file)vs./dir/file%28file%29/dir/file%5bfilevs./dir/file%5Bfile
According to RFC 3986, servers should treat these URIs identically. But if I use == to compare, I'll end up with a mismatch.
So I'm looking for a PHP function which will accepts two strings and returns TRUE if they represent the same URI (dicounting encoded/decoded variants of the same char, upper-case/lower-case hex digits in encoded chars, and + vs. %20 for spaces), and FALSE if they're different.
I know in advance that only ASCII chars are in these strings-- no unicode.