From wikipedia :
All URIs and absolute URIs are formed with the name of the scheme, followed by a colon (":"), and the rest of the URIs (in legacy RFC 1738 and 2396, but not currently STD 66 / RFC 3986) are part of the scheme .
The specific part of the schema is what you have after :
Example:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24077453/ scheme : sheme-specific-part
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