Re: URL, URI and the w3c

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Tue, 14 June 2022 21:36 UTC

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From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
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On Tue, 14 Jun 2022, Tim Bray wrote:

> I think it’s the case that browsers will accept any 3986-conforming URI
> that is within its abilities, i.e. http:, https: (and maybe ftp, etc?).

No, sorry, that's not true. The browsers accept and work with the WHATWG URL 
spec style of URLs and they are incompatible with 3986-conforming URIs (and 
3987 IRIs) in numerous ways. As I've explained.

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