[Bug 15254] Don't forbid underscore in host names in URLs

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15254

--- Comment #4 from Brian Campbell <lambda@continuation.org> 2011-12-17 16:15:53 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Host names in the wild can contain underscores, and most software seems to cope
> > just fine with them. I discovered this problem when someone had problems
> > submitting such a URL to Reddit
> > <http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/neb4h/boston_hockey_player_didnt_get_kicked_from_the/c38emxu>
> 
> there's no underscore in the hostname of this url

That was a link to the discussion about the URL with the underscore in the
host. If you follow that link, and then the story it points to, you will see
the URL under discussion:

http://neshl_mboston.stats.pointstreak.com/playerpage.html?playerid=5186057&seasonid=7647

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Received on Saturday, 17 December 2011 16:15:58 UTC