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    It's apparently a valid URL, despite it being malformed in my opinion

I've had a few [1] posts [2] make it to the front page of Lobsters [3].
Lobsters supports webmention [4], yet I never received a webmention for those
two posts. I checked the logs and yes, they were received but I rejected them
with a “bad request.” It took a bit of sleuthing, but I found the root cause—
the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of my post was, accoring to my code,
invalid. Lobsters was sending in a URL of the form
https://boston.conman.org//2023/01/02.1—notice the two slashes in front of
the path. My code was having none of that.

I'm not sure why Lobsters was sending a URL of that form as previous [5]
webmentions [6] worked fine, but when I checked previous submissions to
Lobsters [7] I saw some of the links had a double slash in the path portion.
As it's considered valid by the What Working Group? “living standard,” [8] I
ended up having to accept what I consider a malformed URL.

Sigh.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2023/01/02.1
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2023/01/08.1
[3] https://lobste.rs/
[4] https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2022/12/14.1
[6] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2022/12/21.1
[7] https://lobste.rs/domains/boston.conman.org
[8] https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#urls

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