Proposal to drop double slashes from URL syntax

• 🗣️ From: Baschdel (baschdel (a) disroot.org)
• 📅 Sent: 2021-02-09 21:16
• 📧 Message 10 of 14

On 09.02.21 17:12, Daniel Nagy wrote:
> Hello,

Hello!

> Advantages:
>  ?- Less typing

That's the only real advantage I see of this proposal. (Humans are lazy)
However as it was already explained it is a part of the URL/URI 
standard, without which we couldn't reuse already existing code and we 
would have to add special cases everywhere.

There are two scenarios one would want to type less:

	
The address bar of a broser
	
Hand written gemini markup


For browser address baers you can add special cases and whatever bells 
and whistles and autocompletion you like as most webbrowsers currently 
do, just make sure that documents that do not conform to the standard 
get what they deserve.

For your gemini documents just use relative uris by leaving out the 
scheme or the path.

# Example
=> gemini://example.org/some_file.gmi
=> //example.org/some_file.gmi
=> /some_file.gmi

If you got the ones above in any document served over gemini from a 
server at example.org they will all point to the same resource

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