On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, Michael Kilburn wrote:

> So, hostname (once extracted from url) is treated as opaque bytes unless
> curl is built with IDN support -- in which case it'll assume it is in
> "current" encoding and try to convert it into punycode before sending to DNS
> server. Am I correct?

I would have said unconditionally yes, but then your comment about winidn made
me look that up and yes that seems to require that the host name is provided
as UTF-8 for it to work! I find that a little odd, but I can live with it.

> I'll have to link libcurl statically to avoid problems if client's libcurl
> is built in wrong way.

There are litterally *millions* of combinations to build libcurl, and we offer
both build-time and run-time ways for you to check what a particular
build/library supports. But yes, if you want to be truly sure that there's a
specific build combination for you to use, you better build your own.

> How does it work for EBCDIC without converting it to ASCII? these parts of
> url should end up on HTTP header somewhere and HTTP standard requires
> header to be US-ASCII encoded (afaik).

EBCDIC systems do a whole lot of converting back and forth to/from ascii for
the various protocols.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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