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std.Uri fails to parse on empty authority section so breaks file:/// scheme parsing
The "authority" section of a URL is allowed to be empty. In particular if the URL scheme is "file://", the authority section is expected to be empty.
This is a bug: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/6218e4004608000ba2e42e07ed1bd56745626820/lib/std/Uri.zig#L126
Thanks.
Relevant portions of rfc3986 (as far as I can tell):
3.2. Authority
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If a URI contains an authority component, then the path component must either be empty or begin with a slash ("/") character. Non- validating parsers (those that merely separate a URI reference into its major components) will often ignore the subcomponent structure of authority, treating it as an opaque string from the double-slash to the first terminating delimiter, until such time as the URI is dereferenced.
3.2.2. Host
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For example, the "file" URI scheme is defined so that no authority, an empty host, and "localhost" all mean the end-user's machine, whereas the "http" scheme considers a missing authority or empty host invalid.
(and for completeness, here's the file scheme RFC: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8089)
cc @MasterQ32
