Re: HTTP URI in the form of "http://example.com?query"

It seems less likely to be parsed correctly without the slash-- I know of
many regexps which will fail to correctly parse the example above.
-=R



On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>wrote:

> On 2013-06-04 01:04, Zhong Yu wrote:
>
>> The question is whether this is a valid HTTP URI:
>>
>>      http://example.com?query
>>
>> According to RFC2616, it is invalid, a slash before the question mark
>> is mandatory(i.e. http://example.com/?query)
>>
>> According to the latest bis draft, it is valid. The draft adopts the
>> generic URI syntax of RFC, which permits this kind of URI.
>>
>> Any reason for this spec change? It seems risky; some old programs may
>> not be able to accept such URIs.
>> ...
>>
>
> And then, others do.
>
> Do you have any evidence of things breaking?
>
> In general, I prefer consistency in edge cases like these.
>
> Best regards, Julian
>
>