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They shouldn't be. Slash normalization is pretty normal and it's ones of the first things frameworks add.

It doesn't matter if some people do slash normalizing. It's not how the web works at the standards-level.

Well, maybe everyone's unawareness of this means the standard is wrong.

No.

A de facto standard? We'll have to ask the committee about that.

However, they're probably building to the URL spec which is what they should be doing.