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DougBTX
on July 18, 2016
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The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and...
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt
may shed some light on this. It describes the ":" as the separator, while the // is a scheme-specific prefix, like a super-powered path separator.
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