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

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 04 June 2013 08:49 UTC

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On 2013-06-04 09:33, Roberto Peon wrote:
> 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
> ...

There's even a regexp in RFC 3986; everybody using that already accepts 
that format.

That being said: what exactly is the breakage? Can you give a concrete 
example?

Best regards, Julian

HTTP URI in the form of "http://example.com?query" Zhong Yu
Re: HTTP URI in the form of "http://example.com?q… Julian Reschke
Re: HTTP URI in the form of "http://example.com?q… Roberto Peon
Re: HTTP URI in the form of "http://example.com?q… Julian Reschke
Re: HTTP URI in the form of "http://example.com?q… Roberto Peon
Re: HTTP URI in the form of "http://example.com?q… Julian Reschke
Re: HTTP URI in the form of "http://example.com?q… Bjoern Hoehrmann
Re: HTTP URI in the form of "http://example.com?q… Daniel Stenberg
Re: HTTP URI in the form of "http://example.com?q… Zhong Yu
Re: HTTP URI in the form of "http://example.com?q… Roy T. Fielding
Re: HTTP URI in the form of "http://example.com?q… Zhong Yu
Re: HTTP URI in the form of "http://example.com?q… Willy Tarreau
Re: HTTP URI in the form of "http://example.com?q… Zhong Yu