- From: Sean Owen <srowen@google.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:42:45 -0500
- To: "Herwig Feichtinger" <hf@isdn-capi.de>
- Cc: public-mobileok-checker@w3.org
Thank you, I have committed changes into CVS which should address this. Sean On Dec 17, 2007 9:03 AM, Herwig Feichtinger <hf@isdn-capi.de> wrote: > > Hello all, > Sean wrote on Mon, 3 Dec 2007: > > >If there is no colon in the URI, assume it is an "http://" URI and > >proceed that way. If there is a colon, parse the part before the colon > >and use that as the protocol. > > This is how the default http protocol is implemented in some browsers, > but unfortunately, it is not very smart. It works for simple URIs like > www.example.com, but if you add a port number to it like > www.example.com:81 then www.example.com will be treated as the protocol > and 81 as the host name. Pretty weird. > > My proposal would be this little modification: > > If there is no colon in the URI before the first dot, assume that it is > an "http://" URI... > > (For non-local URIs, there will be always at least one dot, so this > should work for all realistic scenarios. - And sorry for my late > response.) > > Cheers > Herwig Feichtinger > > >
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