Re: [whatwg] Question about document.referrer (and document.URL, document.location.href) when IDN domains are in use from Anne van Kesteren on 2013-07-12 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from July 2013)

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:04:57 -0400
To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
Message-ID: <CADnb78iniuYkyc4cH+RECg1p=ANVQPMz_sod9_Q11C=YDN=ZXg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> If nothing else because that seems user-hostile (both to web developers
> examining location values and users who are shown document.URL or
> location.href in web pages).

But then we shouldn't garble pathname either and we do because we have
to. So I'm not sure that line of reasoning makes sense. I do think we
should offer some kind of conversion utility between the two.

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