From: "Roy T. Fielding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 5:19 PM
>
I believe that Dean commented:
> > i admit, rfc2396 doesn't allow hostname escaping.
>
> I expect that there will be hundreds of pieces of software that will
> puke on i18n hostnames. It's a lame idea to begin with, but some people
> just have that i18n bug so far up their ass that no amount of reason
> will set them straight.
Agreed it will take the next 10 years to adopt - if it is adopted. But I
find your later comment amusingly colonial.
> It think we should do the unescape, but more so because it might lead
> to a security problem than because I think i18n dns will be deployed.
>
> OTOH, I'd be just as happy to simply reject with 403 any hostname
> that contains a %.
We have been down that path. And proved that it was a huge mistake.
If you disagree, search for the number of bug reports that had to be
closed because folks didn't read the docs.
