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Philip Linde linde.philip at gmail.com
Sat Jun 27 10:42:39 BST 2020
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I'm pretty sure it should be safe for clients to automatically append
trailing slashes to URLs without paths.
Indeed it should be, per rfc3986:
In general, a URI that uses the generic syntax for authority with
an empty path should be normalized to a path of "/".
An authority in this context is //[<user>[:<password>]@]<host>[:<port>],so "gemini://example.horse" and "gemini://example.horse/" areequivalent in a strictly compliant rfc3986 implementation.
A server that serves different content on //server and //server/ can bea huge pain in the neck. When I wrote my dillo plugin I noticed that itseems to apply this normalization in reverse before the URL is handedto the plugin. So "gemini://example.horse/" could only be seen on theplugin end as "gemini://example.horse", which also makes redirects to"gemini://example.horse/" loop back to "gemini://example.horse/".Redirect hell ensued!
That Dillo does this might be strange, but absolutely fine from astandards perspective. It's the server that's not compliant.
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