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RFC 3986, "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", January 2005

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 6874, RFC 7320, RFC 8820

Source of RFC: IETF - NON WORKING GROUP
Area Assignment: app

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Errata ID: 5428
Status: Reported
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Kevin Layer
Date Reported: 2018-07-17

Section 4.2 says:

      relative-part = "//" authority path-abempty
                    / path-absolute
                    / path-noscheme
                    / path-empty

It should say:

      relative-part = "//" authority path-abempty
                    / path-absolute
                    / path-noscheme
		    / path-abempty    ; this was added
                    / path-empty

Notes:

As written, the ABNF excludes "/" being a valid URI. It is hard to believe that href="/" when converted to a URI, would be illegal.

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