> On 7/25/10 8:57 AM, Adam Barth wrote:
> >> There's also the related question of what browsers should do with input
> >> typed into the URL field. Other than establishing that these rules may be
> >> different between the URL field and URLs present in content, I'm not sure
> >> this is amenable to spec. But perhaps a survey of what browsers do would
> >> be useful.
> >
> > I wasn't planning to cover that because it's not a critical to
> > interoperability
>
> Unfortunately, it is. In particular, servers need to know what to
> expect the browser to send if a user types non-ASCII into the url bar.
> There are real interoperability problems out there due to differing
> server and browser behavior in this regard.
>
> It may not be an _html_ interoperability problem, but it's certainly a
> _web_ interoperability problem.
>
It's a question of how HTTP messages are encoded (and in special the encoding
of the IRI).
WHATWG does not specify HTTP, these concerns should be directed to IETF.
