Bug#606712: can't deal with _ in domain names

2010-12-12 Thread Paul Slootman 
On Sun 12 Dec 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
 
 But as one can now even have Chinese URLs, perhaps the _ could be allowed.

IDN URLs are encoded in such a way as to be legal, i.e. no _ or other
forbidden bytes,


Paul



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Bug#606712: can't deal with _ in domain names

2010-12-12 Thread jidanni 
 PS == Paul Slootman p...@debian.org writes:
PS IDN URLs are encoded in such a way as to be legal, i.e. no _ or other
PS forbidden bytes,
i know, punycode. Maybe Andrew could let a few extra wetback characters
through, if it won't break anything(?)... perhaps optionally via the .conf file.



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Bug#606712: can't deal with _ in domain names

2010-12-11 Thread Paul Slootman 
On Sat 11 Dec 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
 
 I don't know if _ in domain names are legal or not, but the perfectly

They're not.


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Bug#606712: can't deal with _ in domain names

2010-12-11 Thread jidanni 
 PS == Paul Slootman p...@debian.org writes:
PS On Sat 11 Dec 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
 
 I don't know if _ in domain names are legal or not, but the perfectly

PS They're not.

Perhaps an error message could say so, instead of truncating it and
trying to get w.

But as one can now even have Chinese URLs, perhaps the _ could be allowed.



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Bug#606712: can't deal with _ in domain names

2010-12-10 Thread jidanni 
X-debbugs-Cc: a...@gedanken.demon.co.uk, wwwoffle-us...@gedanken.demon.co.uk
Package: wwwoffle
Version: 2.9f-2.2

I don't know if _ in domain names are legal or not, but the perfectly
good website http://w_awakening.womenweb.org.tw/ as mentioned on
http://www.facebook.com/pages/tai-bei-shi-fu-nu-xin-zhi-xie-hui/385676613335?v=info
cannot be reached through WWWOFFLE, as WWWOFFLE thinks URL='http://w/',
and there is nothing one can do on wwwoffle.conf to fix it.



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