Subject: bug#24117: 25.1; url-http-create-request: Multibyte text in HTTP request

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 17:52:02 +0200

Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Hmm, but url-generic-parse-url is called from gazillion other places,
>> so maybe this is not safe.
>
> Only about 40 places, all of them either in lisp/url or
> lisp/gnus. Sadly, Lars is being silent on the matter.

It's also called in ffap, eww and newst, according to grep.  :-)

> The URL package doesn't seem to support international domains
> anyway. This fails:
>
> (url-retrieve-synchronously "http://банки.рф")

I think that's a bug...

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