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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: emboss.eclass as replacement for
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:02:01 +0100
justin <jlec@gentoo.org> wrote:

> >> HOMEPAGE="http://emboss.sourceforge.net"
> > 
> > could do with a trailing "/"

I *like* to see that too...

> I asked myself quite often, if this needed or not. What is the purpose
> of the trailing "/"?

However:

  "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]





[1] <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt>, p.8, section 3.3