On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:15:46PM +0100, SteveKing wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Szakmeister" <john@szakmeister.net>
>
> [snip]
> > Wow, can't say I like this either. Any recommendations
> > on how we should solve this problem? I saw the
> > discussion about performing UTF-8 encoding, and
> > *then* URI encoding. But how are we to validate
> > something like 'http://localhost:8888/obj/repo/%e9'.
> > Do we need to URI decode it, UTF8 encode, and
> > the URI encode it again?
>
> I heard that there will soon be domain names with
> special characters in it, not just ASCII chars. How
> is the definition of that encoding? Does someone know?
> All I found about that is
> ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3490.txt
> ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3491.txt
> ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3492.txt
> http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/OLD/idn-charter.html
> http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/00jul/SLIDES/idn-race/
IDNA (RFC3490) will be supported by the next release of neon using GNU
libidn, and will allow hostnames to be passed in as valid UTF-8-encoded
strings (I don't know if ra_dav does that currently).
joe
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Received on Sun Dec 14 17:04:57 2003