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URL Standard (WHATWG)

Official docs outline

7 sections
  1. Goals and infrastructure

    Why the URL Standard replaces RFC 3986 for browsers.

  2. Percent-encoded bytes

    Percent-encode sets and decoding.

  3. Hosts (domains and IP addresses)

    Domain to ASCII, IPv4/IPv6 parsing and forbidden host code points.

  4. URLs: syntax and parsing

    URL record, scheme-specific parsing and the basic URL parser.

  5. URL serializing

    Serialization of URL records and origins.

  6. application/x-www-form-urlencoded

    Form encoding and parsing rules.

  7. URL API

    URL and URLSearchParams classes.

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