[kinix]

You're not wrong, but I bet there are lots of things that will assume based on url (rightly or wrongly). e.g. I've seen a lot of nginx reverse proxy setups implement different caching policies based on url suffix (again rightly or wrongly).

Maybe just playing it safe?

[numlock86]

Yeah, if you for example use the 1001th hip electron based browser (with some hand-crafted curl workers and custom fetchers with an express based proxy-backend included in the background mangled together with some weird mix of 20% javascript and 80% typescript and a combination of at least 400 different npm packages over a commit history of two weekends) to browse the web ... of course, that assumption might break. :^)