- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:48:12 -0500
- To: public-iri@w3.org
Mainly for the record: >Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:08:14 -0800 >Cc: <uri@w3.org> >To: "Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com> >From: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com> >Subject: Re: Canonical Form of URIs "/" and IRIs >On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 09:40 AM, Jeremy Carroll wrote: >>I have two comments on section 6.3 of >> >>http://gbiv.com/protocols/uri/rev-2002/draft-fielding-uri-rfc2396bis- 03.html >>#canonical-form >> >>1) suggest add the following additional rule: >> >>+ For URIs following the generic syntax produce an abs_path of "/" in >>preference to omitting the abs_path >> (this might need an additional example earlier in the doc >>http://example.com >>vs http://example.com/ ) > >Done. I have added a corresponding bullet point in "5.4 Preferred Forms" of the IRI draft, reading: "For schemes that define an empty path to be equivalent to a path of "/", use "/"." (directly copied from 6.3 Canonical Form of the URI draft at http://gbiv.com/protocols/uri/rev-2002/rfc2396bis.html#comparison). Regards, Martin.
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