b=2" vs "b=2&a=1") and produce conflicts unexpecting to users. Currently this does three things: 1. Drop the basic auth part. This is technically wrong since a server can serve different content based on auth, but if it does that, it is even impossible to guarantee two URLs without auth are equivalent, since the user can input different auth information when prompted. So the practical solution is to assume the auth doesn't affect the response. 2. Parse the query to avoid the ordering issue. Note that ordering under the same key in the query are NOT cleaned; i.e. "a=1&a=2" and "a=2&a=1" are still considered different. 3. Explicitly drop most of the fragment part, except ``subdirectory=`` and hash values, since it should have no impact the downloaded content. Note that this drops the "egg=" part historically used to denote the requested project (and extras), which is wrong in the strictest sense, but too many people are supplying it inconsistently to cause superfluous resolution conflicts, so we choose to also ignore them. c