[issue7904] urllib.urlparse mishandles novel schemes

[mARK]

mARK <python.mbloore at xoxy.net> added the comment:

it's not actually necessary to have a list of known schemes.  any url that has a double slash after the colon is expected to follow that with an authority section (what urlparse calls "netloc"), optionally followed by a path, which starts with a slash.

there are various defined schemes with their own syntax within the URL framework, but one is free to invent new ones with the general form
scheme://netloc/path

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