It's a bit of a pet peeve of mine that for some reason everyone wants to put double slashes after the scheme in all kinds of URLs, when the only reason there is a double slash in some (not all!) http URLs is to flag the presence of a hostname before the path.

So the "id://12345" URLs having a double slash is not only useless, it's unnecessarily confusing. When you make up your own scheme ("id" in this case), you can do whatever you want after the colon. That's why "news:alt.usenet.kooks" and "mailto:chip@pobox" are legal.

So in the Monestary, URLs "id:12345" and "cpan:DBI" would be just fine ... if only our esteemed vroom would support them. (And they'd be easier to type, too.)

    -- Chip Salzenberg, Free-Floating Agent of Chaos

In reply to Monastery URLs don't need double slashes! by chip

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