URL canonicalization is an interesting and complicated topic. I'm hoping to cover it in my URL parsing / canonicalization specification, but I haven't been spending much time on that recently.
Adam On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm currently trying to find any text in the HTML specifications which give > an indication on which steps of URL (/URI) normalization should, or should > not, be followed by implementations. > > I threw together a quick test page at http://webr3.org/urinorm/html and have > found all browsers (which I've tested) do some of the URI normalization > steps, with only chrome and IE doing full normalization. > > Any pointers or consideration to this would be greatly appreciated, unsure > if it's an "issue" or not for the specification(s). > > Best, > > Nathan >
