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Pick this Nit: Null Path URIs and the Pedantic Web

• IgorPartola 16y ago
  So the moral of the story is "bring your own laptop to the demo" right? :)
  • gluejar 16y ago
    That doesn't work so well when the customer has trouble giving you an IP address. Our software provided links that would work from inside customer's IP address range, not outside it, so WiMAX wouldn't have been an option, either.
  • gojomo 16y ago
    And: test with Windows IE. And: know the HTTP specs inside and out if you're talking HTTP, don't trust undated/unsigned/unreviewed informational pages (even on a site like w3.org). I wouldn't word the restriction as "URLs with null paths aren't allowed to have query strings". I would say, "the shortest legal path is '/'". (That is, there are no 'null' paths. It sounds like some component of their software may have been sending, or expecting, HTTP requests without the '/' that is always present as the smallest legal path-info.
  • RyanMcGreal 16y ago
    What I got was: make sure you can convince clients you have the power to break and restore the internet.