Re: [Bug 27257] New: anyURI_b006 seems to be valid

bugzilla writes:


> Bug 4048 [1] resulted in marking the expected result for anyURI_b006 test as
> "invalid" because "//" (double slash) is considered as invalid URI. However
> according to reading of rfc2396 [2] presented below double slash should be
> considered as valid URI.

2396 was obsoleted by 3986 [3], whose BNF does _not_ allow the
authority to be empty:

  relative-part = "//" authority path-abempty
  authority     = [ userinfo "@" ] host [ ":" port ]

ht

[3] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986
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