URL support

[feross]

URL support

[feross]

What would "supporting" URL entail?

[stevenvachon]

auth doesn't exist in URL. Instead it has username and password keys that will need to be concatenated with an infixed ":".

Also, swapping the use of url.parse() for new URL().

[feross]

I don't see the point of replacing something that works in all versions of node with something that works only in Node v7. Why exactly would we want to use new URL()?

[stevenvachon]

Because url.parse() is on track to being deprecated.

[feross]

I highly doubt that url.parse() will ever be deprecated, due to the massive effect on the ecosystem. But if that day does come, we can easily fix it at that time.

Isn't this just an implementation detail anyway? How does it affect your app?

[stevenvachon]

Using browserify bundles in url. If it were using URL, we could rely on window.URL.

[feross]

Hm, that's actually a pretty nice benefit. Until it's more widespread though, this doesn't seem worth it, as we'd still need to include a polyfill for URL. We can revisit this in a year or so.