René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Handle URLs with a colon after host but no port","articleBody":"Hello!\r\n\r\nAccording to [this issue](https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5108) on libgit2,\r\nRFC 3986 says:\r\n\r\n    URI producers and normalizers should omit the port component and its\r\n    \":\" delimiter if port is empty or if its value would be the same as\r\n    that of the scheme's default.\r\n\r\nThey are patching [http-parser](https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5108/files) in order to support it.  A similar patch (deleting `case s_http_host_port_start:` around line 2394) works fine also on latest http-parser release (v2.9.3), but a test is broken\r\n    *** http_parser_parse_url(\"http://hostname:/\") \"proxy empty port\" test failed, unexpected rv 0 ***\r\n\r\nMerging something similar on the main repo would prevent maintainers from varios distros to [apply the patch by themeselves](https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/5436#issuecomment-593773122).\r\n\r\nCan something similar be merged here?\r\n\r\nThanks,\r\nNicolò\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/nico202","@type":"Person","name":"nico202"},"datePublished":"2020-03-17T13:35:59.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":8},"url":"https://github.com/501/http-parser/issues/501"}