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		AStonesThrow 71 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rise of the Japanese Toilet The protocol or scheme is the "http" or "https" keyword. The colon is a separator. The "//" introduces the "authority component" or host. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL#Syntax Whatever the user is "throwing at you" if it doesn't have these things in the front, it is not a "URL". It is not even a "protocol-relative URL".

layer8 71 days ago [–]

You are technically correct, but for this use case it doesn’t matter, and everyone knows what is meant here. The parent also didn’t claim that a “url without the protocol” is itself a URL (nor, to be technically precise, a relative URI reference).

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