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Normalize the URL path

== Synopsis

Declared in `<https://www.github.com/boostorg/url/blob/develop/include/boost/url/url.hpp#Lundefined[boost/url/url.hpp]>`

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normalize_path();
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== Description

Applies Syntax‐based normalization to the URL path.

Percent‐encoding triplets are normalized to uppercase letters. Percent‐encoded octets that correspond to unreserved characters are decoded. Redundant path‐segments "." and ".." are removed.

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assert( url( "http://www.example.com/a/b/../c" ).normalize_path().buffer() == "http://www.example.com/a/c" );
assert( url( "http://www.example.com/a/./b" ).normalize_path().buffer() == "http://www.example.com/a/b" );
assert( url( "http://www.example.com/%63ss" ).normalize_path().buffer() == "http://www.example.com/css" );
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== Exception Safety

Strong guarantee. Calls to allocate may throw.

== Specification

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-6.2.2[6.2.2 Syntax‐Based Normalization (rfc3986)]

== Return Value

`*this`


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