Re: Soliciting feedback on draft-abarth-url

I have personally seen a serious security bug from incorrect handling of location.path (though I am not free to disclose the details). So yes, this stuff matters, in general.

Regards,
Maciej

On Apr 19, 2011, at 11:31 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 20.04.2011 08:22, Adam Barth wrote:
>> ...
>> It's a moderate problem in practice.  For example, every browser I'm
>> aware of has had (historically) security bugs arising from subtly
>> different URL processing by various components.  We also have examples
>> of compatibility problems with web sites arising from different URL
>> processing by browsers.
>> ...
> 
> Yes. Sure.
> 
> My question was: do the differences in the behavior of the decomposition attributes cause problems in practice? What type of code is using them? (I really want to know :-).
> 
> I think it would be great if one result of this WG's activity would be the definition of a standard JS API for processing URIs/IRIs/references in browsers.
> 
> Best regards, Julian

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