A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features
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urlapi: stop extracting hostname from file:// URLs on Windows
There is no reason we should treat this part different on Windows. Noe
anything except blank, localhost or 127.0.0.1 cause error there as well.

Also: fix query handling in urlencode_str

Closes #21296
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