RE: [cp-patches] RFC: prevent URL degeneration - v3

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Jeroen,

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 09:04 +0200, Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> Some people (like me) believe it is more important, in some cases, to be
> compatible with the reference implementation than to the spec.

Sure, but in this case it isn't really about the spec. It is whether
toExternalForm() results in a real usable URL or not. Currently it
returns something bogus in some situations.

> It's highly unlikely Sun will fix their code, see also:
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4737160
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4110155
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4447088
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=5014591
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=5018803

I looked through these. They are all about the parsing part when given
the constructor something that doesn't really follow the spec. I agree
that these should just be "liberally" accepted. None of these seem to be
about the bug we are now fixing.

Cheers,

Mark

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