Uri parses "example.com" but fails to parse "example.com/foo"

[jsdw]

The title says it all really; I am using http::Uri to parse things that look like URIs, and I was surprised to find that "example.com" parses successfully, but "example.com/foo" fails with an InvalidUri(InvalidFormat) error. "http://example.com/foo" parses successfully.

Is this deliberate (there could be a subtlety I'm missing here) or a bug?

This is using http 0.1.17.

[jsdw]

Looking at the spec linked elsewhere, I can see why this is the case I believe (though I'd be interested to hear your views before closing the issue).

My intention was to use this Uri object to parse things that look like HTTP URLs, for example:

http://foo.com/bar
127.0.0.1:8080
foo.com/bar
foo.com:8080/bar
/bar

Perhaps this is not the right crate for the job? I tried using the url crate initially, but that is far broader in scope and I was looking for something restricted to HTTP URLs, which led me here.

[jsdw]

I ended up using the url crate but adding some rules to handle the not-quite-urls I wanted to deal with. It feels like this Uri object was not really intended for my use case. Sorry for the noise :)