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- Is an email mailto link a valid URL? 1 answer
While writing a library code to generate URI strings, I got confused about mailto. According to RFC 3986 authority for a URI must be preceded by //. Authority is the part of URI where the userinfo and host resides in userinfo@host syntax. According to this RFC the format should be: mailto://me@host.com. However, it is used as mailto:me@host.com not just in the wild but also shown like that in RFC 2368 and RFC 6068.
The only way mailto being a URI is that the email is appended as path, which doesn't make much sense. Is this assumption correct or is there another point I am missing.
