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bug#40582: Valid URIs are rejected


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: bug#40582: Valid URIs are rejected
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 17:07:57 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux)

Hi,

Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:

> Le 17 juin 2020 17:57:33 GMT-04:00, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> a écrit :

[...]

>>The regexp below is still an approximation, but I think a better one.
>>Can you confirm?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Ludo’.
>
> Looks slightly better, thanks.
>
> That's still incorrect, as it will match things that are not ipv6 addresses. 
> Does it have to be a regexp though? Why not simply check (false-if-exception 
> (inet-pton AF_INET6 host)), as in the return value of valid-host?

Using a regexp makes the code closer to the RFC since the RFC explicitly
describes the grammar.  It’s also the simple choice here.

> There's also a ipv6-host-pat that has an incorrect regexp, but I'm not sure 
> what it is used for.

It’s use for ‘authority-regexp’, but that one is fine: it requires
square brackets around IPv6 addresses.

Pushed as 1ab2105339f60dba20c8c9680e49110501f3a6a0.

Thanks,
Ludo’.





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