Re:URL Parsing in WebKit
by JoshTriplett on Friday December 02, 2016 @09:12PM
(#13093870)
> When parsing URI's generically, and you encounter a URI like:
> scheme:foo/bar
> The meaning of 'foo/bar' is also a path.
You can't count on that; a URI scheme can assign arbitrary semantics to what appears after the ':'. For instance, the "mid" URI scheme refers to a Message-Id (not a path), and the "cid" URI scheme refers to a MIMEd part of a message.
> scheme:foo/bar
> The meaning of 'foo/bar' is also a path.
You can't count on that; a URI scheme can assign arbitrary semantics to what appears after the ':'. For instance, the "mid" URI scheme refers to a Message-Id (not a path), and the "cid" URI scheme refers to a MIMEd part of a message.