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

[Luke Emmet]

On 29-Nov-2020 22:22, colecmac at protonmail.com wrote:
>
> [...]  I take issue with two parts:
>> Clients MAY treat schemeless links in text/gemini documents as errors
> and
>
>> Authors of Gemini content or software which generates Gemini content
>> MUST add explicit schemes to any schemeless links.
> I think both of these changes are not great, as I explained in my original
> email. It effectively disallows schemeless links in gemtext, which I'm
> not in favour of.

Ok - I'm following you now, and I think I agree about not needing this 
restriction in gemtext itself.

on the first point, schemeless links of the form

//authority/path

in the gemtext are quite valid and will be mapped to 
gemini://authority/path in a gemini client and http://authority/path in  
a web client

schemeless links of the form

server.foo/path

are not schemeless links, but rather relative paths with respect to the 
current URL.

On the second point, gemtext generating software should allow for the 
//authority/path form of links.

  - Luke