Yeah, actually that both doesn't work and would (if it did work) break the domain-preserving nature of href://.

Um, if you're going to paste something into the browser, you could well happily paste that, and it would do what daveola tried to do with href

Or phrased another way, http://perlmonks.org/?node=href://?node_id=1010795 works in the browser

Or phrased another way, http://perlmonks.org/?node=jargon://pebkac works in the browser

Or phrased another way, http://perlmonks.org/?node=wikipedia://pebkac works in the browser

Or phrased another way, http://perlmonks.org/?node=google://pebkac works in the browser

Or phrased another way, http://perlmonks.org/?node=ddg://pebkac works in the browser

Or phrased another way, http://perlmonks.org/?node=dict://pebkac works in the browser

Oh, you're right, they do work. I don't know why it didn't when I tried it the other day.