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Subject: Re: HTTP with Simple Components: Status.Kind always File
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Felix Krause <contact@flyx.org> writes:

> Now, my problem is that this argument is quite far away from
> reality. I tested various HTTP client
> implementations (curl, Chrome, Firefox), and every one, when I tell it to get
>
>    http://example.com/?key=value
>
> sends the following Request-Line:
>
>    GET /?key=value HTTP/1.1
>
> So, HTTP clients do not seem to respect this part of the HTTP
> specification.

The RFC that Dmitri quotes is for URIs. You want the one that defines
the HTTP protocol, currently RFC7230 - see section 3, Message Format.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-3