+1 for the group+groupn...@hostname, or group.groupn...@hostname

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:

>  On 04/06/2010 10:47 AM, Eric Helgeson wrote:
>
> Is there a limit on chars it can contain?
>
> Why not:
> [email protected] <%[email protected]> or
> #[email protected] <%[email protected]>
>
> Seems more natural but may be a tech limitation I'm not aware of.
>
>
> As far as I can tell from
> http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/wiki/WebFingerProtocol the address
> should simply be validated/normalized as an email address, in which case #
> and ! should indeed be valid chars for use in the local part of the address.
>
> Might be problems with #[email protected] in particular... may need to make
> sure we consistently manage escaping going to/from acct: URLs.
>
> > return parse_url('acct:[email protected] <acct:%[email protected]>');
> array (
>   'scheme' => 'acct',
>   'path' => '[email protected]', # good
> )
>
> > return parse_url('acct:#[email protected]');
> array (
>   'scheme' => 'acct',
>   'fragment' => '[email protected]', # bad!
> )
>
> -- brion
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