[Bug 17772] [URL] The definition of "absolute url" makes https:foo not an absolute url, since its behavior depends on whether the base is https: or not. Is that desired? In particular, using this definition for websockets means that wss: urls with no forward...

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17772

--- Comment #4 from Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> 2012-07-27 14:37:46 UTC ---
Gecko certainly does, in the form of its set of registered nsIProtocolHandlers,
which are what decide how a URI is parsed.  Unknown schemes get handed over to
a protocol handler that assume a non-hierarchical URI.

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