26197 2014-06-25 14:56:14 +0000 Example for "not file" uses a file URL 2014-06-26 12:00:38 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG URL unspecified All All RESOLVED FIXED P2 trivial Unsorted 1 bratell annevk mike sideshowbarker+urlspec oldest_to_newest 108321 0 bratell 2014-06-25 14:56:14 +0000 http://url.spec.whatwg.org/#parsing [[ If url's scheme is not "file", set url's host to base's host and url's port to base's port. file:/example.org/ ]] The example for the "scheme is not "file", ..." uses a file url. Strange. 108382 1 annevk 2014-06-26 12:00:38 +0000 Well, clearly I'm an idiot for thinking that example would be enough. It was introduced here: https://github.com/whatwg/url/commit/68468e10868914541ca4b36542d413e081916f14 Attempted to clarify it a bit here: https://github.com/whatwg/url/commit/e3820283d2ca3526b17d9037b86be3d06d2d3b7a file URL parsing in general needs to be more carefully studied. See bug 23550.