Message 359273 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

Message359273

Author	roguelazer
Recipients	Björn.Lindqvist, Tim.Graham, martin.panter, miss-islington, orsenthil, r.david.murray, roguelazer, vstinner
Date	2020-01-04.02:37:16
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Message-id	1578105436.14.0.229216159334.issue27657@roundup.psfhosted.org
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This is a surprising change to put in a minor release. This change totally changes the semantics of parsing scheme-less URLs with ports in them and ended up breaking a significant amount of my software. It turns out that urls like `example.com:80` are more common than one might hope, and a lot of software has always assumed that `example.com:80` would get parsed as the netloc and the software can guess the scheme based on the port...

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This is a surprising change to put in a minor release. This change totally changes the semantics of parsing scheme-less URLs with ports in them and ended up breaking a significant amount of my software. It turns out that urls like `example.com:80` are more common than one might hope, and a lot of software has always assumed that `example.com:80` would get parsed as the netloc and the software can guess the scheme based on the port...

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Date	User	Action	Args
2020-01-04 02:37:16	roguelazer	set	recipients: + roguelazer, orsenthil, vstinner, r.david.murray, martin.panter, Björn.Lindqvist, Tim.Graham, miss-islington
2020-01-04 02:37:16	roguelazer	set	messageid: 1578105436.14.0.229216159334.issue27657@roundup.psfhosted.org
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2020-01-04 02:37:16	roguelazer	create