Re: unnecessary unescaping

2007/7/2, mikhail.zabaluev@... <mikhail.zabaluev@...>:
> >> Why is the pctr parameter being unescaped?
> >
> >All the unreserved chars in URIs are unescaped. The reasoning is to
> >make it more straightforward to compare the URIs. Perhaps it would be
> >more appropriate to leave everything but scheme, host and port
> >unescaped.
>
> It's OK for "!" (it shouldn't have been escaped in the first place), but somehow " <at> " in the parameter became
unescaped too, which is wrong because it is a reserved URI character.

Uh-oh. You are right,  ' <at> ' should be kept escaped.

> >>Can I turn this off?
>
> >Only by modifying the source code, see url_d() in url/url.c.
>
> BTW, from what I could understand out of the code ;) the hostname part of SIP/SIPS URIs seems to be
"canonized" with escaping as well, but in reality it should only be validated to have a FQDN/IPv4/IPv6,
everything else makes the URI invalid.

Hm? Hostname should not have any escaped characters.

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