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Except the RFCs are not the only URL standards. Browsers all implement the WHATWG living standard, which is subtly incompatible with the RFCs.

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if they diverged from standards that's on them. What is WHATWG anyway, and what is a 'living standard', and is it a standard at all, or a lack of standard?

https://url.spec.whatwg.org/

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