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crux on Aug 31, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why does a url use ://?

I should note that both Safari and Firefox understand the URL 'http:news.ycombinator.com/item?id=796434' as well.

there on Aug 31, 2009 [–]

but only in the url bar; both turn a url like that into a relative url when used in an img src, for example.

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