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		valicord on May 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The problem with new URL(), and how URL.parse() fi... If you're expecting a string to be a URL, failing to parse it as a URL is indeed an unexpected situation.

maxbond on May 20, 2024 [–]

An invalid URL in a config file is exceptional. An invalid URL typed in by a user or from an external source (eg the body of an API request or inside of some HTML) is Tuesday.

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