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[spec] nitpicking

Omar Polo op at omarpolo.com

Wed Jan 20 17:48:01 GMT 2021

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John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> writes:

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:36 AM Omar Polo <op at omarpolo.com> wrote:
If I'm understanding correctly, the "instead of only a path or selector"
is redundant, since relative URLs aren't allowed.
I think it is meant to emphasize that this is how Gemini does virtual
hosting (and also proxying), rather than a combination of a relative
reference in the GET line and a Host: header, as HTTP/1.1 does. So this
sentence is informative rather than normative.

Your interpretation seems right. I initially read it from theprospective of someone who knew relative URLs were allowed, not assomeone approaching a new protocol.

Thanks,

Omar Polo

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