On Sun Nov 29, 2020 at 4:33 PM EST, John Cowan wrote: > > 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. I think that schemeless links in text/gemini documents should not be considered errors. Clients should resolve the relative reference before sending the request.
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