- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:35:04 -0700
- To: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "public-iri@w3.org" <public-iri@w3.org>, public-html-comments@w3.org, "Peter Saint-Andre" <stpeter@stpeter.im>, "Sam Ruby" <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "Paul Cotton (pcotton@microsoft.com)" <pcotton@microsoft.com>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, "Adam Barth" <ietf@adambarth.com>, "Edward O'Connor" <ted@oconnor.cx>
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:25:15 -0700, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2011-11-04 16:58, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> details of URL processing are besides the point here. The point is that >> URL processing should be uniform. What the exact details of URL >> processing should be is indeed not completely figured out just yet, but >> it is clear that the IETF specifications on the matter are fiction. > > Well, so is that the HTML spec says. The problem is to pretend that it's > possible to agree on the same error handling for everybody. We have crossed that bridge for much more complex problems, such as HTML parsing, so I think it should be doable. > We spent tons of emails on the IRI mailing list to figure out *which* > "willful violations" of RFC 3986 UAs implementers agree on, and didn't > really find a lot. That does not mean we do not want to converge. >> You keep bringing this example up and I will remind you once again that >> obviously you would have to split on whitespace characters first in such >> cases. This has does not affect uniform URL processing in the slightest, >> it just means we should either require whitespace characters in URLs to >> always be escaped, or require whitespace characters in URLs to be >> escaped in cases where URLs are whitespace separated. > > It means that you have at least *two* processing algorithms, no matter > how you rephrase it .-) Yes, you need two algorithms because standalone URLs and whitespace separated URLs are distinct. What are you trying to say? -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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