[SPEC-CHANGE] Mandatory scheme in request and link URLs

[John Cowan]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 2:33 PM Solderpunk <solderpunk at posteo.net> wrote:

100% agreement up to this point.

Clients MAY treat
> schemeless links in text/gemini documents as errors, but again assuming
> a scheme of gemini may be considered a valid application of Postel's
> law.
>

They aren't errors: they are relative references.  If a file "gemini://
example.net/this/that/file1.gmi" has a link saying "
example.com/path/to/file2.gmi", for example, that does *not* mean in RFC
3986 "gemini://example.com/path/to/file2.gmi" but rather "gemini://
example.net/this/that/example.com/path/to/file2.gmi".  So this is a Big
Bang change in the interpretation of text/gemini files.  But I am still for
it, not against it.




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