> On Jun 29, 2024, at 03:20, nyamsprod the funky webmaster > <nyamsp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Therefore, I would rather suggest we ALSO include support for RFC3986 and > RFC3987 specification properly and give both specs a go (at the same time!) > and a clear way to instantiate your `Url` with one or the other spec. > In clear, my ideal situation would be to add to the parser at least 2 named > constructors `UrlParser::fromRFC3986` and `UrlParser::fromWHATWG` > or something similar (name can be changed or improved). > > While this is an old article by Daniel Stenberg > (https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/01/30/one-url-standard-please/), it conveys > with more in depth analysis my issues with the WHATWG spec and its usage in > PHP if it were to be use as the ONLY available parser in PHP core for URL.
I agree that I would love to see a more general IRI parser, with maybe a URI parser being a subtype of an IRI parser. Cheers, Ben