Requiring schemes in Gemini requests

[acdw]

On 2020-11-24 (Tuesday) at 21:44, Adnan Maolood <me at adnano.co> wrote:

> Not requiring schemes in Gemini requests has led to lots of confusion.
> I propose that Gemini requests must contain a scheme.
> 
> This will make things simpler for server authors, who will not have to
> check for the scheme "gemini" as well as check for an empty scheme.
> Some servers do not properly handle this anyways.
> 
> Linking to a URL without a scheme should still work. It would be up to
> the client to resolve the URL reference before making the request. This
> functionality should already be provided by whatever library the client
> uses to handle relative URLs.
>

I very much agree with this, and there's recently been a long discussion on the very matter: https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/003361.html

I don't recall it being resolved, however.  I think the Gemini spec should be revised to be compliant with the URL RFCs.

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