- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 12:41:41 +0200
- To: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>, "Robin Berjon" <robin.berjon@gmail.com>, "Marcos Caceres" <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
- Cc: Wojciech Masłowski <wmaslowski@opera.com>
On Thu, 12 May 2011 12:27:33 +0200, Marcos Caceres
<marcosscaceres@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following rule is too restrictive in WARP:
>
> "If origin is not a valid IRI, *if it has components other than scheme
> and iauthority*, if it has no host component, or if it has a iuser
> info component, then this element is in error and the user agent must
> ignore this element."
>
> ... While I
> was at Opera working on extensions, we noticed in the Opera Extensions
> catalog that people were doing all sorts of "interesting" things with
> WARP declarations (e.g., adding "/*" and other things assuming some
> kind of pattern matching).
>
> Anyway, an easy solution is to simply ignore any "/" or simply ignore
> all but the scheme and iauthority.
>
> WDYT?
At a minimum. I suspect there are use cases for actually allowing paths to
be a real part of the access statement, but I haven't thought hard about
it yet.
cheers
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