GNU bug report logs - #24117
25.1; url-http-create-request: Multibyte text in HTTP request

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sho Takemori <stakemorii <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 08:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.1

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #56 received at 24117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: stakemorii <at> gmail.com, 24117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: Re: bug#24117: 25.1;
 url-http-create-request: Multibyte text in HTTP request
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 19:33:23 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: dgutov <at> yandex.ru,  stakemorii <at> gmail.com,  24117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:18:18 +0200
> 
> That you have to encode the data returned before doing network stuff
> (which is what the RFC talks about) is a completely different matter.

But no one does.  So evidently, leaving this to applications just
makes us buggy.

> The function is used to decompose URLs found in nature.  Those URLs
> contain non-ASCII characters.

URLs found in nature are all unibyte strings.
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