On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 04:25:25PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > The HTML file will contain references to each of the URLs, > > directing the browser to go fetch things from them and execute > > or display them as appropriate. > > FWIW, that HTML page does not include "gstatic" in its source text (but > apparently some other pages fetched from `canada.ca` do). > OTOH, it contains a weird: > > <script > src="//assets.adobedtm.com/be5dfd287373/abb618326704/launch-3eac5e076135.min.js"></script> > > what's this "//"? Do web browsers automatically add a "http(s):" in > front nowadays, or does it end up referring to a copy on the > CRA's server.
Yes: that means "keep the URL scheme" -- practically http or https. It's in the RFCs [1], although the quote itself is funny: "A relative reference that begins with two slash characters is termed a network-path reference; such references are rarely used." Plus ça change... :-) Cheers [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#section-4.2 -- t
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