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But humans rarely need to parse URL's into components but often need to read them aloud or type them. The extra characters make this slower and more error prone
by goto11 6y ago
But humans rarely need to parse URL's into components but often need to read them aloud or type them. The extra characters make this slower and more error prone.
For most user interaction purposes the URL is just an opaque string. Only the browser need to actually parse the URL.