[hsbauauvhabzb]

I can see plenty of situations where colons behaviour might be confusing, let’s start with a http url on a non standard port with credentials embedded, I assume something close to http://01:02@03:04:05:06:07:8000/foo/bar would be a valid url,

[piperswe]

Close, it would be more like http://01:02@[03:04:05:06:07:08:09:10]:1112/foo/bar

[hsbauauvhabzb]

Great, so now I have to learn a new uri syntax too?

[piperswe]

Same syntax, IP just goes in [square brackets] to disambiguate.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

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