On 9 May 2016, at 13:56, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> What do you think is the correct way forward? And please, let us not add an option to select behavior! =)

It should be have as if "curl http:///example.com" were on the command line.

Currently that behaviour is to reject the request, which is reasonable.

If you fix this, you should fix URL processing to permit it in general, and I see no reason to do that.

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Alex Bligh
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