Nick Kew wrote:
Yes, it's legal. The leading slash is implied. Note: that's leading slash, which is firmly different to a trailing slash in a path.
for abspath you are correct. but in general;
URI = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ]
hier-part = "//" authority path-abempty
/ path-absolute
/ path-rootless
/ path-empty
injecting a leading slash where an empty (rootless) path is implied will
change the meaning on the fly :(
Bill
