RESOLVED WONTFIX 17098
Replace our broken KURL with Google URL 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17098
Summary Replace our broken KURL with Google URL
Eric Seidel (no email)
Reported 2008-01-30 11:41:07 PST
Replace our broken KURL with Google URL Google wrote its own URL parsing library which is used a bunch internally, and looks to be significantly better than KURL. If nothing else, the several hundred unit tests are useful. I don't think KURL even does any cannonicalization (which gurl does). http://code.google.com/p/google-url/ I think WebKit should just pull in gurl as a dependency. The google coding style is kinda strange, but generally pretty similar to WebKit's own. It might even be published somewhere externally...
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Eric Seidel (no email)
Comment 1 2008-01-30 11:45:18 PST
bug 16799 is an example where (in complex cases) we would require a url parser which could canonicalize urls.
Brett Wilson (Google)
Comment 2 2008-01-30 12:37:35 PST
A pet peeve of mine is that a link to "Apple.com" will not be marked as visited, because the URL is not canonicalized before Safari does a history lookup.
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 3 2023-01-09 16:18:54 PST
Our URL class is very different now from what it was in 2008.
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