On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Alexander Zilberman wrote:

> Either way you look at it, it should check the URI at least because i am
> sure that it is not allowed in the RFC.

It depends on your viewpoint.

I've chosen the way to be liberal in what it accepts, so that *you* (the user)
can decide what you want to pass on to the server. If you pass in a bad URL,
curl does its best with it. If you want it to send a "standards-compliant"
request then you need to pass it a legal URL.

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