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Relative links vs scheme-less links

Petite Abeille petite.abeille at gmail.com

Tue Jun 2 20:17:00 BST 2020

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On Jun 2, 2020, at 20:49, colecmac at protonmail.com wrote:
I am just writing these wrong, and scheme-less links should always start
with `//`? The spec says "a scheme of gemini:// is implied", so I assumed
having those would be redundant.

Sometime, the simplest things turn out not to be so simple :)

See RFC-3986, section 5.2.2, Relative Resolution:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-5.2

And of course, all of Sean's torture tests:

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.conman.org/test/torture/