I am having a problem implementing a simple web server. According to the spec, a HTTP/1.1 request starts with this line:
Request-Line = Method SP Request-URI SP HTTP-Version CRLF
In this line, there is a Request-URI which is defined as follows:
Request-URI = "*" | absoluteURI | abs_path | authority
So, I am allowed to either send a complete URI (with schema, server name, etc) or an abs_path (authority is, as defined in the spec, only for the CONNECT method). Then I have:
abs_path = "/" path_segments
path_segments = segment *( "/" segment )
These definitions are from the URI spec, which is linked in the HTTP spec. As we see, abs_path is only an absolute path without the query.
So far the theory. Now when I actually send a HTTP GET request to http://example.com/?key=value, this line is sent:
GET /?key=value HTTP/1.1
I tried this using Firefox, Chrome and curl. Shouldn't that be illegal according to the spec? Am I overseeing something?