[NNTP] NNTP URI draft

[Russ Allbery]

Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

> "http://a.server" is a special case. RFC 2616 says that:

>     Note that the absolute path
>     cannot be empty; if none is present in the original URI, it MUST be
>     given as "/" (the server root).

> So "http://a.server" and "http://a.server/" both generate the request:
>     GET / HTTP/1.1

What I'm wondering is more whether http://a.server is officially blessed
as a valid URL in the syntax, or if the trailing / is syntactically
required.  We should copy whatever HTTP does in its URI syntax.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>