Please no, it'll likely be a huge headache all the way around.

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 1:41 PM Ray Satiro via curl-library <
curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se> wrote:

> On 9/19/2018 5:02 AM, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote:
> > The URL parser in libcurl accepts URLs without a scheme, the "text://"
> > part of URLs.
> >
> > If no scheme is specified, libcurl guesses which scheme that was
> > intended based on some basic hueristics and if nothing matches it
> > falls back to plain old "http://".
> >
> > In this day and age of growing HTTPS use and slow decay of plain HTTP,
> > maybe it is time to change the fallback in libcurl and make it instead
> > go with HTTPS if nothing else matches?
> >
> > I'm a little scared this might hurt a lot of users running scripts
> > relying on this since forever.
>
> I'm against it for the reason you mentioned, I consider it a breaking
> change.
>
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