From kde-devel  Sat Aug 02 22:26:24 2003
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () svn ! net>
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 22:26:24 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Lower case URLs?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=105986339428731

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On Sunday 03 August 2003 00:09, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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
> rules defined in  RFC 3491 (Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for
> Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)) if you have libidn installed. If you
> don't, it'll just fold the hostname to lowercase.
>
> >or even if they are have nothing
> >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.
>
> URLs are defined with case insensitive hostnames. A protocol where
> hostnames are case sensitive (there is no such thing in DNS) probably will
> have a hard time using URLs at all.

The problem is that the hostname part of a URL not necessarily refers to a DNS 
hostname. That is the case in smb for example, where it refers to a workgroup 
I believe. Fortunately those names are case insensitive so it doesn't cause 
problems there.

Cheers,
Waldo
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