Enabling passing relative Url when creating connections

client-ts/Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR.Client.TS.Tests/Connection.spec.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ import { ITransport, TransportType, TransferMode } from "../Microsoft.AspNetCore
 import { eachTransport } from "./Common";
 
 describe("Connection", () => {
+    it("cannot be created with relative url if document object is not present", () => {
+        expect(() => new HttpConnection("/test"))
+            .toThrow(new Error("Cannot resolve '/test'."));
+    });
 
     it("starting connection fails if getting id fails", async (done) => {
         let options: IHttpConnectionOptions = {

client-ts/Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR.Client.TS/HttpConnection.ts

@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@ export class HttpConnection implements IConnection {
     readonly features: any = {};
 
     constructor(url: string, options: IHttpConnectionOptions = {}) {
-        this.url = url;
+        this.logger = LoggerFactory.createLogger(options.logging);
+        this.url = this.resolveUrl(url);
         options = options || {};
         this.httpClient = options.httpClient || new HttpClient();
-        this.logger = LoggerFactory.createLogger(options.logging);
         this.connectionState = ConnectionState.Initial;
         this.options = options;
     }
@@ -156,6 +156,28 @@ export class HttpConnection implements IConnection {
         }
     }
 
+    private resolveUrl(url: string) : string {
+        // startsWith is not supported in IE
+        if (url.lastIndexOf("https://", 0) === 0 || url.lastIndexOf("http://", 0) === 0) {
+            return url;
+        }
+
+        if (typeof window === 'undefined') {
+            throw new Error(`Cannot resolve '${url}'.`);
+        }
+
+        let parser = window.document.createElement("a");
+        parser.href = url;
+
+        let baseUrl = (!parser.protocol || parser.protocol === ":")
+            ? `${window.document.location.protocol}//${(parser.host || window.document.location.host)}`
+            : `${parser.protocol}//${parser.host}`;
+
+        let normalizedUrl = baseUrl + url;
+        this.logger.log(LogLevel.Information, `Normalizing '${url}' to '${normalizedUrl}'`);
+        return normalizedUrl;
+    }
+
     onDataReceived: DataReceived;
     onClosed: ConnectionClosed;
 }

client-ts/Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR.Test.Server/wwwroot/js/hubConnectionTests.js

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 'use strict';
 
-var TESTHUBENDPOINT_URL = 'http://' + document.location.host + '/testhub';
+var TESTHUBENDPOINT_URL = '/testhub';
 
 describe('hubConnection', function () {
     eachTransportAndProtocol(function (transportType, protocol) {