Hi Thomas, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:30:59AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > > Alert!: User/password may appear to be a hostname: 'google.com?' > > > > > (e.g, 'google.com') > > > > > > > > > > Then it takes me to http://www.debian.org/ > > > > > > > > yes - and I was using the trace to see if I'd gotten the right host. > > > > The trace is (based on strace...) incorrect. I'll fix that. > > > > > > Here's the change which I just applied, which seems to work. > > > > At least fixes the redirect target for me. > > > > > If there's no further changes needed, I'll release that as dev.11 > > > > I though wonder if the "User/password may appear to be a > > hostname" alert is now still needed for that case. > > Technically it's not needed, but some people apparently believe that > dots in a username makes it a hostname.
That's my point: The case http://google.com?@www.debian.org/ doesn't have a user name -- it just has a host name and a query string. So IMHO the warning is obsolete in this specific case, i.e. with "?@" without "/" before it. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE