> On 21 Jul 2019, at 19:03, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 08:48:49AM +0100, Barry Scott wrote:
>>
>> I took at very quick look at bpo30500 and was struck by the comment
>> that the code was working on a URL that had not been validated.
>>
>> Validation of the URL would reject the URL before the parsing happens
>> in this case. Was that the case?
>
> Sorry, can you elaborate on that? How do you validate a URL without
> attempting to parse it? You're surely not talking about looking it up in
> a whitelist are you?
I was thinking about ensuring the the characters in the url are from the subset
that is allowed. \n is not allowed for example. Yes agree you have a try to
parse it.
Barry
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>
> Thanks,
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> Steven
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