spec clarification request: scheme omission

Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Sun May 24 02:58:50 BST 2020


It was thus said that the Great Martin Keegan once stated:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The spec says, at 1.2, that:
> 
> "<URL> is a UTF-8 encoded absolute URL, of maximum length 1024 bytes.
> If the scheme of the URL is not specified, a scheme of gemini:// is
> implied."
> 
> Is this supposed to allow one or both of
> 
>   //hostname.domain:port/filename
>   hostname.domain:port/filename
> 
> as synonyms for
> 
>   gemini://hostname.domain:port/filename

  	//hostname:port/filename

  Per the URL spec (RFC-3986), the '//' is part of the host portion of the
URL.

  -spc



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