This came up in a private exchange a few months ago, but it isn't resolved in url-syntax-08. According to RFC 1034, Sect. 3.1, the string "foo." is an "absolute domain name." (Note the trailing '.'.) url-syntax-08 provides no valid way to use "foo." as a hostname in a URL, as in http://foo./bar The problem is that grammar non-terminal "toplabel" can not end in '.' as it's currently specified. I think it should allow the final '.'. Dave KristolReceived on Thursday, 16 October 1997 12:43:14 EDT
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