> I understand that, but I'm asking something like: if you type in •.com into > your browser, what's getting passed to the server behind the scenes?
The non encoded string (xn--...). It must be this way because the HTTP protocol requires the header to be completely US-ASCII. It is best to think of punycode as just a browser adress bar display hack. -jc _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation