RFC-3986, section 6.2.3: For example, because the "http" scheme makes use of an authority component, has a default port of "80", and defines an empty p

RFC-3986, section 6.2.3: For example, because the "http" scheme makes use of an authority component, has a default port of "80", and defines an empty path to be equivalent to "/", the following four URIs are equivalent: http://example.com http://example.com/ http://example.com:/ http://example.com:80/