[ih] URl construct, etc

[Tony Finch]

Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
>
> When/why were the two slashes dropped for "mailto:" ?

As I understand it there was a convention on some distributed unix-alike
systems for remote path names of the form //host/path where the //
indicated a super-root as opposed to / for the local filesystem root. This
was adopted for URL syntax with the addition of a protocol scheme prefix.

Since mailto: URLs aren't pathnames, it doesn't make sense to include the //.

Tony.
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