René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"url.parse now encodes components","articleBody":"This behavior changed between Node-0.10 and 0.12/iojs and does not appear to be documented anywhere.\n\nio.js v2.3.3:\n\n```\n\u003e url.parse(\"http://example.com/{z}/{x}/{y}.png#foo{}\")\n{ protocol: 'http:',\n  slashes: true,\n  auth: null,\n  host: 'example.com',\n  port: null,\n  hostname: 'example.com',\n  hash: '#foo%7B%7D',\n  search: null,\n  query: null,\n  pathname: '/%7Bz%7D/%7Bx%7D/%7By%7D.png',\n  path: '/%7Bz%7D/%7Bx%7D/%7By%7D.png',\n  href: 'http://example.com/%7Bz%7D/%7Bx%7D/%7By%7D.png#foo%7B%7D' }\n```\n\nnode.js v0.10.39:\n\n```\n\u003e url.parse(\"http://example.com/{z}/{x}/{y}.png#foo{}\")\n{ protocol: 'http:',\n  slashes: true,\n  auth: null,\n  host: 'example.com',\n  port: null,\n  hostname: 'example.com',\n  hash: '#foo{}',\n  search: null,\n  query: null,\n  pathname: '/{z}/{x}/{y}.png',\n  path: '/{z}/{x}/{y}.png',\n  href: 'http://example.com/{z}/{x}/{y}.png#foo{}' }\n```\n\nThis also means that URIs no longer roundtrip:\n\niojs v2.3.3\n\n```\n\u003e url.format(url.parse(\"http://example.com/{z}/{x}/{y}.png#foo{}\"))\n'http://example.com/%7Bz%7D/%7Bx%7D/%7By%7D.png#foo%7B%7D'\n```\n\nnode.js v0.10.39:\n\n```\n\u003e url.format(url.parse(\"http://example.com/{z}/{x}/{y}.png#foo{}\"))\n'http://example.com/{z}/{x}/{y}.png#foo{}'\n```\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/sethfitz","@type":"Person","name":"sethfitz"},"datePublished":"2015-07-06T19:12:19.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":23},"url":"https://github.com/2113/node/issues/2113"}