append a slash to the domain if path is empty?

rich1.0phorkiehttps://p.cweiske.de/append a slash to the domain if path is empty?Christian Weiske86400900900 <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://p.cweiske.de/css/embed.css"/> <div class="phork" id="140"> <div class="phork-file"> <div class="phork-content"> <div class="document" id="in-an-url-should-i-append-a-slash-to-the-domain"> <h1 class="title">In an URL, should I append a slash to the domain?</h1> <div class="section" id="rfc-1738-uniform-resource-locators-url"> <h1>RFC 1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL)</h1> <p>RFC 1738 says the slash is optional:</p> <pre class="literal-block"> ; HTTP httpurl = "http://" hostport [ "/" hpath [ "?" search ]] hpath = hsegment *[ "/" hsegment ] </pre> <p><a class="reference external" href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1738#page-18">http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1738#page-18</a></p> </div> <div class="section" id="rfc-3986-uniform-resource-identifier-uri-generic-syntax"> <h1>RFC 3986: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax</h1> <p>RFC 3986 talks about normalization, and it recommends adding a slash:</p> <blockquote> In general, a URI that uses the generic syntax for authority with an empty path should be normalized to a path of "/".</blockquote> <p><a class="reference external" href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-6.2.3">http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-6.2.3</a></p> </div> <div class="section" id="whatwg-url-spec"> <h1>WhatWG URL spec</h1> <p>It also makes the slash after the domain name optional when serializing an URL:</p> <blockquote> <p>An absolute URL must be a scheme, followed by ":", followed by either a scheme-relative URL [...]</p> <p>[...]</p> <p>A scheme-relative URL must be "//", optionally followed by userinfo and "@", followed by a host, optionally followed by ":" and a port, optionally followed by an absolute-path-relative URL.</p> <p>[...]</p> <p>An absolute-path-relative URL must be "/", followed by a path-relative URL that does not start with "/".</p> </blockquote> <p><a class="reference external" href="https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#writing">https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#writing</a></p> </div> <div class="section" id="conclusion"> <h1>Conclusion</h1> <p>?</p> <ul class="simple"> <li><a class="reference external" href="http://cweiske.de/">http://cweiske.de/</a></li> <li><a class="reference external" href="http://cweiske.de">http://cweiske.de</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="phork-meta"> <a href="https://p.cweiske.de/140/rev-raw/0f4b7754199ec253218452a326831d0d5c15641e/README.rst" style="float: right">view raw source</a> <a href="https://p.cweiske.de/140#README.rst">README.rst</a> </div> </div> </div>