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Blink and Gecko strip leading and trailing whitespace. This is also in line with these tests: https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/blob/master/url/urltestdata.txt But this is not in the spec.
This is step 1.3, no? http://url.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-url-parser
Yes. I missed it.