[Catalyst] $c->request->uri returning 'wrong' results?

[Jon Warbrick]

When responding to a request for, e.g. 

  http://www.example.com/?foo=bar, 

$c->request->uri returns 

 http://www.example.com?foo=bar 

(at least under the the Testserver and Catalyst 5.7001). I _think_ this is 
technically wrong, on the grounds that the path component of an HTTP URL 
is required to be at least '/' even if there is a query component. 

In practise browsers and servers seem to be able to cope with this. I 
noticed it in an application that compared a URL before and after the 
addition of a query string and which concluded that they were not related 
becasue http://www.example.com/ != http://www.example.com

It looks as if this may at least partly be down to the inner workings of 
URI::canonical.

Jon.

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Jon Warbrick
Web/News Development, Computing Service, University of Cambridge