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Re: [PATCH] Switch IDNA implementation to libidn2 [BZ #19728] [BZ #19729] [BZ #22247]

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
To: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 15:14:14 +0100
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Switch IDNA implementation to libidn2 [BZ #19728] [BZ #19729] [BZ #22247]
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On 02/02/2018 01:41 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:

+* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
+  the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated.  The STD3
+  restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
+  removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.

This part is not true. My intent was to allow _ in host names for IDNAnames (but not $ and other shell meta-characters), but the patch doesnot achieve that. I need to check what libidn2 actually offers in thisarea.


Florian

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