On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 2:06 AM Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <
curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> 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.
>
> (Brought to attention since I'm adding the CURLU_GUESS_SCHEME to the URL
> API
> in https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3018)
>
> Thoughts?
>

Could this be a perpetually deprecated feature, and brought to light with a

setopt NODEPRECATED=1 style tuneable?

-bch

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