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

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Tue, 04 June 2013 11:19 UTC

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* Zhong Yu wrote:
>The question is whether this is a valid HTTP URI:
>
>    http://example.com?query
>
>According to RFC2616, it is invalid, a slash before the question mark
>is mandatory(i.e. http://example.com/?query)

That may well be unintentional, RFC 2396 certainly allows for the path
to be omitted and RFC 2616 talks about an "empty abs_path" as opposed to
an omitted abs_path in section 3.2.3; RFC 1945 does the same. RFC 1808
does not allow it though, so quite possibly RFC 2616 failed to account
for the change between RFC 1808 and RFC 2396.
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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