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Maybe consider support Handshake names (N.B. NOT TLS/SSL handshake, please read the content from details)

From: David Hu via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 06:29:07 +0000

Hello all,

The Internet has become very centralised with TLD domain names, which the Handshake project is purposed to change this.
According to https://handshake.org, Handshake is a decentralised naming and certificate authority an experimental peer-to-peer root naming system. It seeks to replace the ICANN TLD domain name system and allows URLs like https://curl/ (nowerdays browsers don't typical treat https://curl as a valid URL as it lacks a TLD, so a trailing slash is required)

Unfortunately curl doesn't currently support this type of name resolution even if the system configured DNS supports it
It will only return the following for example https://testdomain/

```
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: testdomain
```

Details can be found at https://handshake.org/
FAQs are at https://handshake.org/faq

The technical documents are at https://hsd-dev.org and their GitHub repository at https://github.com/handshake-org/hsd

If you are interested you can maybe consider it as a feature in future cURL development.

Thank you very much and happy Thanksgiving!


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Received on 2021-10-10