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Your b) was actually only ever true for the HTTP protocol, but URLs are not strictly limited to that protocol. They are not limited to any finite set of protoco
by Slartie 7y ago
Your b) was actually only ever true for the HTTP protocol, but URLs are not strictly limited to that protocol. They are not limited to any finite set of protocols at all. You could easily make up your own protocol which differentiates between host names in a similar way as modern HTTP does. And you could have made that in 1995.
- jefftk 7y agoYou could have made one in 1995, but looking over https://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers/protocol-numbers.xhtml https://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers/protocol-n... I think HTTP/1.1 was the first protocol to send the host name like this. (Though I could be missing something, since that's a lot of protocols.)