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Stephan Kulow wrote:
>On Thursday 19 May 2005 21:23, Zack Rusin wrote:
>> > - handle URL-looking non-URLs (example: ed2k://|file|
>>
>> Ugly_looking[file]name|343928602|00000000000000000000000000000000|/)
>>
>> QUrl follows the URI specification in this respect. QUrl does the
>> right thing in rejecting it. If KUrl accepted this stuff, then that's
>> really bad.
>
>I don't understand this point. What is the problem here? From what I
> remember, the only thing that the URI specification says is that
> everything is allowed behind the <protocol>: - unless protocol is among
> <pretty small list>

That's the spec.

The problem is that KURL in the KDE 3.2 developing days started using IDNA=
=20
and the "hostname"
	|file|Ugly_looking[file]name|343928602|00000000000000000000000000000000|

was being passed to the IDNA functions. Since it is not a hostname, this=20
generated many different errors, the foremost being the enforcement of=20
the 64-character limit per label. What's more, it lowercases the name,=20
since hostnames are case insensitive. And it violates the STD3 rules for=20
ASCII-only hostnames. ([, ], | aren't allowed)

The culprit here is the // just behind ed2k:. If it weren't there, this=20
mess would never have happened. Or if the eDonkey 2000 authors used a=20
sane URL in the first place.

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