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

[Adnan Maolood]

On Sun Nov 29, 2020 at 4:54 PM EST,  wrote:
> What is the issue with scheme-less link lines? These are perfectly valid,
> and any client with a good URL parsing library should support them. They
> are already in use by authors, and are of particular importance to sites
> that support bi-hosting on the Web and on Gemini, like flounder.online.
> That way the links users make will work in both spaces automatically.
>
> I believe this part of the change should be reversed, and schemeless links
> should be allowed. It is only the request part of the spec that was
> previously ambiguous.
>
> I'm sorry for not bringing this up earlier, I misunderstood the earlier
> discussion an did not realize that removing schemeless link support was on
> the table.

I agree. When I proposed this change, I mentioned that schemeless links
should still work:

https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/003534.html

> 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.