Ask HN: Why does a url use ://?

Re:Ask HN: Why does a url use ://? by blasdel on Monday August 31, 2009 @04:59PM (#796709)

And that would have wrapped DNS and HTTP together in a very uncomfortable way -- you'd have to make at least one extra DNS query for every HTTP request to disambiguate.

People would just end up using a different separator after the DNS part, and you'd be back where you started (just with big-endian domain names).

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Re:Ask HN: Why does a url use ://? by jacquesm on Monday August 31, 2009 @05:06PM (#796720)

Yes, that's exactly what I would have expected to happen, with the // as a prime candidate for that separator.

Big-endian domain names would have been very nice to have though, if only because it would have been a lot more orderly than the current jumble.

Big-endian for the 'major' components and the path name, little-endian for the host portion seems a bit weird.

mail:/com/domain/hostname//username

Would look strange though...

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