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Proposal to drop double slashes from URL syntax

PJ vM pjvm742 at disroot.org

Tue Feb 9 20:26:45 GMT 2021

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On 2/9/21 8:57 PM, Daniel Nagy wrote:

Also, to my understanding removing them does not violate the standard. For

example, `tel:+1-816-555-1212` and `magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:...` are valid

URIs.They are valid URIs, because these schemes do not use the "authority"component of the URI syntax. The authority is for the hostname, port,and userinfo. The double slash is grouped with the authority componentand is required by the URI standard to be present when the authoritycomponent is used and to be absent when it is not used. Gemini URIsalways need to specify the hostname, so there is always an authoritycomponent, and to be standard-compliant the double slash cannot be left out.

-- pjvm