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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:58:23 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> (And it is perfectly valid for the domain bits of URLs to contain
>> non-ASCII characters after the IDNA changeover in the RFCs.)
>
> They must be unibyte.

I have no idea what you mean.

If we have an <a href="http://góogle.com/foo"> instance, we have to
decompose the URL into the domain part (góogle.com) and the local part
(/foo), and then connect to the domain part (after IDNA encoding) and
issue "GET /foo".  If the decomposition function barfs on the URL, then
we can't make the connection.

Anyway, I won't have much time to carry on bickering here, so do
whatever you want to break the way Emacs handles URLs.

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