When "c" is replaced by a
> digit, Wget accepts the url and attempts to resolve "xyz".
>
> It's worth noting that both curl and aria2 accept the url example.
>
> Why is the semicolon not allowed in userinfo, despite the fact that other
> special characte
e "xyz".
It's worth noting that both curl and aria2 accept the url example.
Why is the semicolon not allowed in userinfo, despite the fact that other
special characters are allowed?
Thank you,
Bachir
http://a;b:c@xyz
Hi all,
Thank you for your replies.
The URL I posted is not the one you received and does not contain any
space. The url may have been botched by the mailing list. I attach the url
here for your reference.
"http://a;b:c@xyz;
Best,
Bachir
On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 9:47 PM Tim Rühsen wrote:
> On
On 10/4/23 14:04, Bachir Bendrissou wrote:
Hi Tim,
Wget doesn't follow the current specs and the parsing is lenient to
accept some types of badly formatted URLs seen in the wild.
Did you mean to say that the parsing is overly strict, and needs to be more
permissive?
I tried to make clear
Hi Tim,
Wget doesn't follow the current specs and the parsing is lenient to
> accept some types of badly formatted URLs seen in the wild.
>
Did you mean to say that the parsing is overly strict, and needs to be more
permissive?
Because not allowing a semicolon is strict parsing, which needs to
On Tue, 3 Oct 2023, Tim Rühsen wrote:
My version of curl (8.3.0) doesn't accept it:
curl -vvv 'http://a ;b:c@xyz'
* URL rejected: Malformed input to a URL function
That's in no way a legal URL (accortding to RFC 3986) and it is not the
semicolon that causes curl to reject it. It is the
l the URL parsers are slightly different when it comes to edge cases.
I'd consider curl as a good reference.
Why is the semicolon not allowed in userinfo, despite that other special
characters are allowed?
First of all, userinfo does not allow spaces at all (look at
https://datatracker.ietf.org/
Wget accepts the url and attempts to resolve "xyz".
It's worth noting that curl and aria2 both accept the url example.
Why is the semicolon not allowed in userinfo, despite that other special
characters are allowed?
Thank you,
Bachir
