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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