Re: [whatwg/url] It's not immediately clear that "URL syntax" and "URL parser" conflict (#118)

I'm sorry for the imprecision. We often use "all browsers" to mean "the consensus browser behavior, modulo minor deviations and bugs."

The URL Standard defines URLs for software that wants to be compatible with browsers, and participate in the ecosystem of content which produces and consumes URLs meant for browsers. If cURL does not want to be part of that ecosystem, then yes, the URL Standard is probably not a good fit for cURL. But we've found over time that most software (e.g. servers which which to interact with browsers, or scraping tools which wish to be able to scrape the same sites as browsers visit) wants to converge on those rules.

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