- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:06:50 +0100
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- CC: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>, www-validator@w3.org
I don't pretend to understand this issue at all, but I am intrigued by the behaviour of Mozilla, which on being asked to open an http connection to www.räksmörgås.josefsson.org reports (in its status bar) Resolving host www.xn--rksmrgs-5wao1o.josefsson.org Could anyone explain what /that/ one's all about ? ** Phil. -------- Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Martin Duerst wrote: > >>My guess is that the conversion to punycode was correctly made before >>resolving the host name, but that punycode was not used is the Host: >>field of HTTP/1.1. Although that's not explicitly written down anywhere, >>that's how it works (at least with deployed servers). > > > That seems a weird interpretation of "Bad hostname", don't you think?
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