Hello Peter, On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 20:16:26 +0100 GMT (02/02/2004, 02:16 +0700 GMT), Peter Hampf wrote:
>>> http://www.dict.cc/?s=au%DFergew%F6hnlich TF>> When the URL doesn't use umlauts (i.e. has them encoded as above), > for clearness: What do you consider to be the URL? The Uniform Resource Locator. The location of a particular webpage or another file on the internet. <Quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL> HTTP URLs can also contain additional elements, like a query string (placed after the path and separated from it by a question mark (?)) containing information from a HTML form with method=get, or a name tag (placed after the path and separated from it by a sharp mark (#)) giving the location within a hypertext page to display. FTP URLs often contain a port number. examples: http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Train&action=history http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train#Model_railways <Unquote> > IMHO the URL is "http://www.dict.cc/"; and "?s=au%DFergew%F6hnlich" is a > parameter passed to this site. IMHO what you call the URL is just the domain. TF>> I consider this a bug, as umlauts are allowed in URLs even without TF>> encoding. > No. Umlauts and other high ASCII chars have to be encoded to Punycode on the > clients site when used in URLs. No DNS will use high ASCII characters nor > will it in the future, according to the current agreements. What you pass as > a parameter is beyond the DNS. It sure is beyond the DNS, because that one serves only the domain names. > Therefore we can say - as far as I understand it - that un-encoded umlauts > are not allowed in an URL. The reason I do not agree is that a query or a file name can contain umlauts, the the query or file name will still be successful. > Not now and not when domain names with umlauts are starting (is it > in February?). I only know what was said on the webpages I psoted previously. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. I prayed for patience once... And I'm STILL waiting! Message reply created with The Bat! 2.03 Beta/51 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 256MB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 2.03 Beta/47 | "Using TBBETA" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
