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RFC 3986 provides a generic URI grammar that is not scheme-specific, though other standards that define URL schemes may choose to subset the subset that grammar
by bkallus 3y ago
RFC 3986 provides a generic URI grammar that is not scheme-specific, though other standards that define URL schemes may choose to subset the subset that grammar as they see fit. If a URL parser does not recognize a scheme, I would expect it to parse the URL using the generic parsing procedure.
- cxr 3y agoWell, they don't. Browsers implement the WHATWG's spec, which says not to do that and was created to supersede RFC 3986.