[issue7904] urlparse.urlsplit mishandles novel schemes

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:

I think Mark is correct.  RFC 3986 says:

When authority is present, the path must either be empty or begin with a slash ("/") character.  When authority is not present, the path cannot begin with two slash characters ("//").

I think it would make sense to have urlparse fall back to doing a generic RFC 3986 parse when it does not recognize the scheme.

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