Fwd: Re: Canonical Form of URIs "/" and IRIs

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.

Received on Thursday, 12 February 2004 13:16:25 UTC