remote: relax the url rules

Accept any value for the remote's url, including an empty string which
we used to reject as invalid configuration.

This is not quite what git does (although it has its own problems with
such configurations) and it makes it harder to fix the issue, by not
letting the user modify it.

As we already need to check for a valid URL when we try to connect to
the network, let that perform the check, as we don't need to do it
anywhere else.