Subject: bug#54624: 29.0.50; textsec and ipv6 addresses

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2022 19:02:29 +0200

Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]> writes:

> Is there any reason to be approximate here? Shouldn't be very hard to
> only allow well-formed addresses.

The point here isn't to validate an address.  It's to say whether
there's something suspicious in an URL.

There's nothing particularly suspicious about an URL that has an invalid
domain part (in itself).

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