- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:56:40 +0900
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- CC: "public-ietf-w3c@w3.org" <public-ietf-w3c@w3.org>
On 2014/12/23 15:59, "Martin J. Dürst" wrote: >>>> That is indeed a regular expression. I'll even grant that it seems >>>> likely to handle valid URIs correctly. My concern is that it also >>>> processes a large number of invalid URIs, for example: >>>> "http://192.168.0.257" >> I base my assertion that this is not a valid URI based on the following >> quote from RFC 3986: >> >> IPv4address = dec-octet "." dec-octet "." dec-octet "." dec-octet >> >> dec-octet = DIGIT ; 0-9 >> / %x31-39 DIGIT ; 10-99 >> / "1" 2DIGIT ; 100-199 >> / "2" %x30-34 DIGIT ; 200-249 >> / "25" %x30-35 ; 250-255 >> >> Do you come to a different conclusion? > > No, of course not. The '7' in '257' doesn't match %x30-35. Just for the record: Björn was correct that this matches the reg-name production. Regards, Martin.
Received on Tuesday, 23 December 2014 07:57:13 UTC