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Re: A canonical URL host name dilemma
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From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 10:48:17 +0200 (CEST)
On Sat, 9 Oct 2021, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote:
> The question is perhaps then if that new option should rather be A) "don't
> URL encode host names" or B) "don't URL encode host names that are valid IDN
> names".
>
> Making it A) is way simpler and make a more predictable behavior.
I realize I'm now down in the weeds and I probably lost all of your interest
by now but it struck me I should probably reverse the option:
Stick to returning the name *un*-encoded by default in URLs and introduce a
new option that percents-encode the host name when the URL is retrieved.
This, to maintain the existing behavior to a larger extent. Parsing a URL with
an IDN name and then again extracting the URL will then work identically as
before, with the addition that it will also decode percent-encoded parts of
the host name.
I'll work on this in the PR.
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 10:48:17 +0200 (CEST)
On Sat, 9 Oct 2021, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote:
> The question is perhaps then if that new option should rather be A) "don't
> URL encode host names" or B) "don't URL encode host names that are valid IDN
> names".
>
> Making it A) is way simpler and make a more predictable behavior.
I realize I'm now down in the weeds and I probably lost all of your interest
by now but it struck me I should probably reverse the option:
Stick to returning the name *un*-encoded by default in URLs and introduce a
new option that percents-encode the host name when the URL is retrieved.
This, to maintain the existing behavior to a larger extent. Parsing a URL with
an IDN name and then again extracting the URL will then work identically as
before, with the addition that it will also decode percent-encoded parts of
the host name.
I'll work on this in the PR.
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