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Kevin_Stewart
Sep 27, 2012Employee
It's actually a function of the browser and the HTTP protocol. Your browser will implicitly add the "/" to your request if you don't supply a path. In fact the protocol requires a path in the HTTP method statement (ex. GET / HTTP/1.1)
RFC 2616 states (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt):
"If the abs_path is not present in the URL, it MUST be given as "/" when used as a Request-URI for a resource (section 5.1.2)"
That's why you'll never see a request with an empty path.