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Re: query part for non-HTTP(S) URLs

From: Jonas Schnelli <jonas.schnelli_at_include7.ch>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:19:32 +0100

> Hi
>
> Before I forget, I just wanted to mentioned that someone on IRC pointed it out to me the other day that RFC3986 (and popular browsers) allow a query part on generic URIs.
>
> This means you can actually legally write "file:///this/is/file?name=daniel" but the '?' and the query part will be ignored for protocols that don't have a meaning for it.
>
> I can only think of HTTP and HTTPS of the protocols we support that use the query part, so a proper fix of libcurl would be to cut off that part for all other protocols - and of course to write test cases that verify that it behaves correctly.
>
> Anyone ready to get your feet wet with some libcurl hacking and work on this?
>

Hi

I could give that a try.
I just did a analysis.

But are you def. sure that we can drop the chars after "?" on every protocol except than HTTP and HTTPS?

</jonas>

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