Uri for home url always forced to end in /

[benmccallum]

TIL that if you have a System.Uri that is for the root, e.g. a path of string.Empty, it will always render out from .ToString() as "https://mydomain.com/". Note the trailing slash.

Apparently this is to adhere to the HTTP spec, see link from the SO post.all equivalent. https://stackoverflow.com/a/46980376/725626

The spec is basically saying no slash or with slash on root is the same, but you should normalize to with the /.

My issue though is that may not be the canonical URL you'd want for a site that doesn't use trailing slashes, and I wonder if parsers of Schemas are respecting the spec...

What do you think? More just opening a discussion than logging a bug.

[RehanSaeed]

https://mydomain.com/ and https://mydomain.com are equivelant for search engines like Google. Trailing slashes only matter for paths. I asked the same question some years ago.