You can use newline characters in URLs
I had no idea, but apparently, you can just use newline characters and tabs in URLs without any issues.
Notice how it reports an error if there is a tab or newline character, but continues anyway? The specification says that A validation error does not mean that the parser terminates and it encourages systems to report errors somewhere. Effectively, the
https://www.osnews.com/story/144513/you-can-use-newline-characters-in-urls/
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