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EADGBE | 5 years ago

Also, don’t forget user/pass prompt in a URL.

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otterlicious|5 years ago

There is no ambiguity.

http:username:password@example.com/thing.jpg http:username:password@example.com:8080@example.com/thing.jpg

But they might have picked a different delimiter for that in this alternative future. Or perhaps realized it was a bad idea earlier.

IPv6 addresses are a different story. We definitely would have chosen a different character to delimit IPv6 addresses in this future.