On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, jfcm wrote:
My understanding is that IDNAs make HTTP messages malformed.
The IDNA has been designed so it does not do that.
Now I am confused: International domain names, as entered by users,
would make HTTP messages malformed because HTTP addresses are
ASCII-based, right? It is the proposed IDNA conversion that makes the
addresses well-formed for old protocols. Since you asked whether OPES
can be used to perform IDNA conversions, OPES would have to deal with
raw IDNAs as input, right? Raw IDNAs make HTTP messages malformed.
Malformed messages may not be able to reach OPES agents, even if those
agents can handle them. Yet, you are saying that there is no problem.
What am I missing?
Alex.