- From: by way of Martin Duerst <pk@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
- Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 12:00:24 -0500
- To: uri@w3.org
Hello, > I just checked Stephen's URI, http://stephen_pollei.home.comcast.net/, [...] > All the above browsers return Stephen's home page without problems. So the browsers, or the resolvers they use, are too liberal. An '_' is not allowed in a hostname. To access the document you need to translate said name into an IP address, i.e. into an A or AAAA record (it doesnt' matter that in this particular case there's also a CNAME involved). Ergo "stephen_pollei.home.comcast.net" is a hostname and should follow the syntax rules for hostnames. > that needs fixing. It might be the browsers, or it might be the spec. > Probably fixing the spec is easier. There's nothing to fix. Non-ASCII characters may "work" in many cases, too, but simply declaring them OK doesn't solve the problem. -Peter
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