10 minutes ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 8:21 PM, <e...@racket-lang.org> wrote: > > + ;; The following two tests are not really correct: they rely on the URL > > + ;; decoding silently passing un-encoded text as is instead of barfing. > > (Eg, > > + ;; using these URLs in a browser and then copy-pasting it from the > > address > > + ;; should get you a properly encoded string instead.) > > This parenthetical is not really correct. In particular, you cannot > rely on what's displaying in the browser address bar to be a > correctly-encoded URL -- the address bar is part of the user > interface, and not a reflection of the internal state.
It doesn't talk about what is displayed. > For some discussion on this point, see this thread: > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.platform/V0XjJ-uQbcI/discussion > > In general, the whole URL parser should probably be changed/re-written > to follow http://url.spec.whatwg.org/ but that's a longer-term > project. -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
