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NS_E_CURLHELPER_NOTRELATIVE
NS_E_CURLHELPER_NOTRELATIVE: evidence, boundary and retest
The useful reading of NS_E_CURLHELPER_NOTRELATIVE (0xC00D1330) is not “media failed” but an API requiring a relative reference received an absolute URL. This places the failure at the notrelative URL check and narrows the evidence to collect before another attempt changes state.
Before any socket is opened, the player decomposes a URL into scheme, authority, host, port, path and escaped data before closing the notrelative incident. It may also combine a relative reference with a base URL or convert a file URL into a path; each operation has a different validity rule in the notrelative diagnostic record. In the case of NS_E_CURLHELPER_NOTRELATIVE, preserve the earliest lower-level result because wrappers can map several different causes to the same HRESULT when isolating the notrelative case.
Preserve the raw and parsed URL
| Capture | Why it separates NS_E_CURLHELPER_NOTRELATIVE |
|---|---|
| Owning call | Record the API method, object identity, thread or callback and timestamp for the notrelative URL check. |
| Decisive values | the original unmodified string, character count, encoding, base URL if any, parsed scheme, host, port and path, plus required and supplied output-buffer lengths while tracing the notrelative path. |
| Object generation | Note when the reader, writer, graph, URL object, streaming session or metadata provider was created; stale state can reproduce NS_E_CURLHELPER_NOTRELATIVE after configuration has changed. |
| First nested result | Keep the earliest codec, COM, socket, DNS, parser or provider status before NS_E_CURLHELPER_NOTRELATIVE; later UI messages are less specific. |
| Comparison case | Use one known-good resource that exercises the same the notrelative URL check while changing only the rejected precondition. |
Failure anatomy
The notrelative url check is reached when an API requiring a relative reference received an absolute URL. The caller must not assume that the next filter, packet, session or metadata state exists after NS_E_CURLHELPER_NOTRELATIVE.
Use supply a syntactically relative reference and combine it with the same absolute base URL as the negative control at the notrelative checkpoint. A later HRESULT means this checkpoint was cleared and the new result belongs to a different stage while tracing the notrelative path.
Nearby results are not interchangeable
Main distinction: the URL can be syntactically valid and still be wrong for an API that requires a relative reference during a controlled notrelative retest.
| Nearby HRESULT | How to compare it |
|---|---|
NS_E_CURLHELPER_NOTAFILE | Compare the owning API and first rejected value; it belongs to a neighboring checkpoint, not automatically to the same cause as NS_E_CURLHELPER_NOTRELATIVE. |
NS_E_CURL_CANTDECODE | Use object state and operation order to decide which code is authoritative when both appear in one trace before closing the notrelative incident. |
NS_E_CURL_INVALIDBUFFERSIZE | Retain this result separately if it appears only after the NS_E_CURLHELPER_NOTRELATIVE condition has cleared. |
One-component URL experiment
- Log
0xC00D1330,NS_E_CURLHELPER_NOTRELATIVE, the exact operation and the first failure time when isolating the notrelative case. - Preserve the original unmodified string, character count, encoding, base URL if any, parsed scheme, host, port and path, plus required and supplied output-buffer lengths at the notrelative checkpoint.
- Do not reuse a graph, session, reader or metadata object created before the relevant configuration or resource changed while tracing the notrelative path.
- Perform one isolated test: supply a syntactically relative reference and combine it with the same absolute base URL during a controlled notrelative retest.
- Repeat through the same API and protocol path; a different player or local-copy test is useful only as a comparison, not as proof that the notrelative URL check is fixed.
- Confirm the expected next state and retain any new HRESULT as a separate downstream result before closing the notrelative incident.
What the parser result proves
| Retest result | Interpretation for NS_E_CURLHELPER_NOTRELATIVE |
|---|---|
| The identical call still returns the code | The values governing the notrelative URL check are unchanged, or the caller is still using an older object generation. |
| A fresh object succeeds | Lifetime or cached state contributed to NS_E_CURLHELPER_NOTRELATIVE; correct object recreation instead of applying a machine-wide workaround when isolating the notrelative case. |
| The call advances to another HRESULT | The the notrelative URL check boundary was cleared. Diagnose the new code at its own format, graph, URL, network or metadata stage while tracing the notrelative path. |
| Only one resource fails | The evidence favors content, URL, publishing point, stream, attribute or object-specific state rather than a global outage during a controlled notrelative retest. |
Misleading actions
- blindly decoding and re-encoding the whole URL, which can change reserved delimiters and resource identity for evidence about notrelative.
- Do not erase the first
NS_E_CURLHELPER_NOTRELATIVEoccurrence by repeatedly retrying; callbacks and reconnects can replace the useful state with a later wrapper error before closing the notrelative incident. - Do not publish credentials, protected-content material or complete private URLs in the notrelative diagnostic record. Record redacted identifiers, lengths, hashes and protocol fields needed to reproduce the notrelative URL check.
Technical references
- RFC 3986: URI generic syntax
- Handling URLs with WinINet
- CreateUri
- ParseURL
- Microsoft HRESULT registry
Treat NS_E_CURLHELPER_NOTRELATIVE as resolved only when the same API path crosses this checkpoint; success through a different player or cached copy is merely supporting evidence at the notrelative checkpoint.
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