Spec update: Domains may not contain C0 controls or U+007F DELETE. Opaque hostnames remain changed. See: https://github.com/whatwg/url/pull/685 WebKit already blocks these code-points in domains (since https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232034 ), but it should be relaxed for opaque hostnames pending further discussion.
Apologies for the typo: "Opaque hostnames remain changed." should be "Opaque hostnames remain **un**changed." 🤦♂️
I'm not sure I agree that opaque hostnames should remain unchanged. I think the case for the character sets to be the same for both types of hosts is compelling. I haven't seen any compatibility issues from this change. I think this is a bridge we will have to cross when Chrome and/or Firefox change to make opaque hostnames a thing in their implementations.
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 257213 ***