- From: Eric Lawrence <ericlaw@exchange.microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 18:32:18 +0000
- To: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
>http://www.example.com?foo
In my experience, real world sites will use URLs like this from time to time, and as far as I know, all major browsers work with such URLs.
-Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-http-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:ietf-http-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Yves Lafon
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 7:45 AM
To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Subject: http URI grammar
In rfc2616, the production was:
http_URL = "http:" "//" host [ ":" port ] [ abs_path [ "?" query ]]
from 2396bis:
abs_path became path-absolute in 2396bis
path = path-abempty ; begins with "/" or is empty
/ path-absolute ; begins with "/" but not "//"
/ path-noscheme ; begins with a non-colon segment
/ path-rootless ; begins with a segment
/ path-empty ; zero characters
path-abempty = *( "/" segment )
path-absolute = "/" [ segment-nz *( "/" segment ) ]
segment = *pchar
segment-nz = 1*pchar
The current definition in -11 [1] is
http-URI = "http:" "//" authority path-abempty [ "?" query ]
One difference is that httpbis now allows
* http://www.example.com//foo
* http://www.example.com
as valid URIs (which is fine), but also allows http://www.example.com?foo is that desired? Should it be changed to
http-URI = "http:" "//" authority ( path-empty /
1*( "/" segment) [ "?" query ] ) or
http-URI = "http:" "//" authority ( path-empty /
path-absolute [ "?" query ] )
[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-11#section-2.6.1
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~~Yves
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