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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 62425] Lowercasing/normalising URLs breaks some non-compliant
From:       Leo Savernik <l.savernik () aon ! at>
Date:       2003-09-15 10:28:02
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------- Additional Comments From l.savernik@aon.at  2003-09-15 12:28 -------
Well, in this case data urls are all RawURI. 
 
As you tell it, mailto should be treated exceptionally. 
 
Doesn't prettyURL mean: Do any amount of incomprehensible, irreversible 
distortion to make the url pretty to read, but totally unsuitable for any 
further processing? 
 
Data urls have to be treated literally (the only processing allowed is %xx 
decoding). If prettyURL does exactly do this for RawURI, and this behaviour is 
guaranteed (i. e. doesn't start doing distortions in KDE 3.3/4.0 because of 
some "usability" study), everything's well. 
 
But deducing from the explanation in the docs "Returns the URL as string in 
human-friendly format.", I'm afraid this won't hold true for long because one 
day a programmer will come, and *do* distortions to make is more 
"human-friendly".
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