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Absolute URL Terminology

What does the term ‘absolute URL’ refer to?

The RFCs indicate that the scheme is required in an absolute URL, making https://example.com/foo/cat.gif an absolute URL.

But cat.gif and /foo/cat.gif are both URLs, with one relative and the other absolute, so one of them is an absolute URL, even though it’s not the ‘absolute URL’ of the RFCs.

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