On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:30:59AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> 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.  May as well make them look
closer.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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