Maybe I'm mis-reading the URI spec [0], but it seems that // is required to separate the scheme from the "authority" part when it's present (as it is for my.dom

Maybe I'm mis-reading the URI spec [0], but it seems that // is required to separate the scheme from the "authority" part when it's present (as it is for my.domain.com). [0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-3.2 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-3.2