R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> added the comment: I've added Senthil as nosy to double check me, but my understanding is that the scheme is just the part up to the colon. If you want to have a netloc in the URL, you have to precede it with a '//'. Otherwise there's no netloc. ---------- assignee: docs@python -> nosy: +orsenthil _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8818> _______________________________________