From kde-devel  Sat Aug 02 22:09:15 2003
From: Thiago Macieira <thiagom () wanadoo ! fr>
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 22:09:15 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Lower case URLs?
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Petter E. Stokke wrote:
>The key word being "usual". A number of applications depend on URLs that
>don't even pretend to be RFC compliant,

Then they have to be fixed.

Since my addition and fixes of IDNA implementation, KURL now respects all=20
rules defined in  RFC 3491 (Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for=20
Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)) if you have libidn installed. If you=
=20
don't, it'll just fold the hostname to lowercase.

>or even if they are have nothing=20
>to do with the Internet, and it would be a mistake to make assumptions
>about the case insensitivity of any part of a URL for which the protocol
>isn't known to exhibit this property.=20

URLs are defined with case insensitive hostnames. A protocol where hostname=
s=20
are case sensitive (there is no such thing in DNS) probably will have a har=
d=20
time using URLs at all.

>Especially given the kioslave system and its potential multitude of
>various protocol implementations, I'd consider this property of KURL (if
>that is, as it seems to be, where the problem lies) a Very Bad Thing and
>ask that it be reverted, or at least constrained to protocols for which
>it's known that converting to lower case would be safe.

I won't revert my commit because that would simply remove IDNA support in K=
DE.=20
Kioslaves have to be implemented with case-insensitive hostnames. Otherwise=
=20
that's abusing the ioslave system (IMO).

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