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Re:Scientists discover a highly potent antibody against SARS... by byproxy on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @04:28PM (#28844675)
Oops! Yep, looks like I mis-entered the URL and can't seem to edit. =/
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Re:Scientists discover a highly potent antibody against SARS... by dang on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @04:39PM (#28844787)
No, you entered it fine, but our software has recently begun rewriting URLs to the canonical URL if the page has one, and this page has

  //actu.epfl.ch/news/scientists-discover-a-highly-potent-antibody-again/
...which isn't valid, but we might as well tweak the code to handle such cases. In the meantime I've restored the URL. Sorry for the error!
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Re:Scientists discover a highly potent antibody against SARS... by mircea on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @04:57PM (#28844987)
That's a valid URL, AFAICT.

https://www.paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/

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Re:Scientists discover a highly potent antibody against SARS... by dang on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @06:03PM (#28845606)
Whoa! TIL

Edit: fixed now. Thanks you guys.

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Re:Scientists discover a highly potent antibody against SARS... by mircea on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @06:31PM (#28845917)
Glad I could contribute something :)
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Re:Scientists discover a highly potent antibody against SARS... by pvg on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @05:17PM (#28845201)
As the other comment says, it's a valid URL but to really rub it in, the canonical link RFC (6596) says it's valid and then also uses a relative URL in an example like they were just waiting for someone to be wrong about this on the internet.
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