Thomas Dickey wrote:
I had in mind to approach this by looking to see if I could find when/why the leading "/" for a GET of a query is optional (or not).
It's required by HTTP. All within host relative addressing must be handled by the client. (When sending to a proxy, the http://host also needs to be sent, and it is also permitted, as an alternative to Host: headers, for HTTP/1.1 clients.
Incidentally, one common cause of differential failure to resolve relative URLs is the incorrect use of \ instead of /. I don't know if that applies here.
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