Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: emboss.eclass as replacement for embassy.eclass

[justin]

On 16/03/11 18:59, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
>
>>   "An HTTP URL takes the form:
>
>>       http://<host>:<port>/<path>?<searchpart>
>
>>   "where <host> and <port> are as described in Section 3.1. If :<port>
>>    is omitted, the port defaults to 80.  No user name or password is
>>    allowed.  <path> is an HTTP selector, and <searchpart> is a query
>>    string. The <path> is optional, as is the <searchpart> and its
>>    preceding "?". If neither <path> nor <searchpart> is present, the "/"
>>    may also be omitted."   [1]
>
> Right, so <http://emboss.sourceforge.net> or even
> <http://emboss.sourceforge.net:80> are legal and equivalent to
> <http://emboss.sourceforge.net/>.
>
> However, there is also a "normalized form" of URIs, which does include
> the trailing slash:
>
>    "In general, a URI that uses the generic syntax for authority with
>     an empty path should be normalized to a path of "/"." [2]
>
> Ulrich
>
>
>> [1] <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt>, p.8, section 3.3
> [2] <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-6.2.3>
>

Thanks for clarification, justin