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by matthewmacleod 2383 days ago
Yes - bear in mind the URL class has been around since 1995, when the landscape was somewhat different!

At that point, URLs resolving to the same IP were considered equal, even if the host names were different. Even now, there’s no real difference between say “http://example.com” and “http://example.com:80”; it would have been reasonable to consider these equal.