On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 04:34:05PM +0200, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library 
wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2022, Timothe Litt via curl-library wrote:
> 
> > > My initial PR for this work: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/9750
> > > 
> > Why change the default behavior?
> 
> For improved privacy. Because the browsers sort of do it like this.

I agree with Timothe that this doesn't seem worthwhile breaking backward
compatibility. I discovered only recently that browsers have changed their
behaviour in this area when a site that was depending on receiving the full URL
broke.  If someone is going to the trouble of enabling this option, then
they're doing so for a good reason and there's a reasonable chance they need
the full URL. I'm all for adding an option to add the host-only behaviour as an
option, but not to make it the default. I could probably be convinced to change
it in curl 8 when there's an expectation of some changes in behaviour.

Dan
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