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> When parsing URI's generically, and you encounter a URI like:

> scheme:foo/bar

> The meaning of 'foo/bar' is also a path.

You can't count on that; a URI scheme can assign arbitrary semantics to what appears after the ':'. For instance, the "mid" URI scheme refers to a Message-Id (not a path), and the "cid" URI scheme refers to a MIMEd part of a message.




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