- From: Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 10:38:41 -0500
- To: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
How about we add some cautionary notes on this kind of URIs: 1. consumers must accept them 2. producers should not produce them 3. a middle man should add the slash before forwarding it to others. Zhong Yu On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Julian Reschke wrote: > >> Yes, but what's the exact breakage except for one component not processing >> that edge case? It's an edge case after all? > > > I only recently got a bug report for curl as when we got an input such as > that and passed it to a particular (unspecified) proxy it would reject it as > illegal. > > Thus curl nowadays will insert a slash before passing on the URL to a proxy. > > -- > > / daniel.haxx.se
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