Fails for URLs without protocol, but with path

[dagilleland]

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

GitHub pages, such as this one dgilleland.github.io/CPSC-1520 may have case-sensitive urls. When testing in the Observatory, it transforms the supplied URL to lower-case, resulting in a 404 from github.io.

What did you expect to see?

Some analysis of my site, but not an error saying the URL is incorrect/not resolved.

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

My repository is public: https://github.com/dgilleland/CPSC-1520

Do you have anything more you want to share?

No response

[caugner]

Note that HTTP Observatory on MDN scans hosts, not individual URLs, and if you provide a valid URL, the host will generally be extracted automatically. So typing these is equivalent:

• dgilleland.github.io
• https://dgilleland.github.io/CPSC-1520

Note that dgilleland.github.io/CPSC-1520 is not a valid fully qualified URL, and therefore HTTP Observatory seems to treat it as a host.

It would probably makes sense to remove the /... part automatically, but since you would usually type in a host or paste in a fully qualified URL, and this is the workaround, this has rather low priority.