Hi. I'm observing that the first segment in `URLBuilder.pathSegments` is always an empty string. Is ...

# ktor

[Felix]

Hi. I'm observing that the first segment in URLBuilder.pathSegments is always an empty string. Is this a well-known behaviour? Is there a rationale for it?

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

Yes. The rationale is to be able to get the path by joining segments with / . The empty string represents a leading or a trailing slash.