What are the colon and double forward-slash ( :// ) in URIs called?
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You don't need to explicitly clarify that it's a "forward" slash. A "slash" is a "forward slash".– MrWhiteJan 11 '17 at 22:29
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There is no special name for them.
The URL specification generally describes them using symbols and just names everything around them.
URI = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ] hier-part = "//" authority path-abempty / path-absolute / path-rootless / path-empty
At one point it does say:
The authority component is preceded by a double slash
… which is as close as it gets to giving // a name.
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1...and the first colon separates the scheme. They aren't a single entity.– MrWhiteJan 11 '17 at 22:33
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Can we make names for them then? How about the Schemer for the colon and Lash-Lash for the two slashes? :D Oct 6 '20 at 16:12