Re: Can HTTP headers encode enough URLs?

Jonas Sicking wrote:
> It sounds like what you are asking is if HTTP headers can encode all the 
> values for 'url' that we need? This is different from my original 
> concern, but is certainly a valid question.

Yep.

> Given that we don't need to encode the all possible paths, since all 
> paths are disallowed, is there still a concern? People would have to use 

I see.

> punycode to encode non-ascii characters if they are part of the domain 
> name, which is unfortunate, but hopefully tooling will help here.

Correct. So again, it needs to be a RFC 3986 URI. RFC 3987 defines how 
to map it.

BR, Julian

Received on Monday, 21 July 2008 08:04:33 UTC