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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Lower case URLs?
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-08-02 16:41:58
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On Saturday 02 August 2003 17:47, Petter E. Stokke wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 16:28, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Saturday 02 August 2003 02:14, Petter E. Stokke wrote:
> > > Duh. Actually, the result is "foo://wombat/Flarp". Is that KURL
> > > converting the host to lower case?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> Is that a good idea? As I mentioned earlier, there are many non-standard
> URL constructs out there which are mangled by this behaviour in
> Konqueror. 

You actually only mentioned "foo"

> At the very least, it should be limited to protocols which 
> are known to refer to DNS names in the host part, like http.

Possibly, unfortunately that requires knowledge on a per-protocol basis 
whether it refers to DNS names or not.

Cheers,
Waldo
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