Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] URI status

[Dean M. B. <mik...@gm...>]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Jeroen Habraken <vex...@gm...> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 15:51, Dean Michael Berris
> <mik...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Because currently the HTTP URI parses the string at construction time
>> (and URI's are immutable anyway), validity checks are as simple as
>> returning a boolean. So parse once, validity and data are available
>> right away once the object is constructed.
>
> This is indeed very nice, and should be kept this way, in what I'm
> proposing -with the exception of relative URI's, see below- will be
> kept that way, mere the place where most of the parsing is done will
> change.
>

Alright. Let's just make sure that it does make sense and doesn't back
us into a corner. It's easy to change later on if we find that leaving
all the parsing into one parse function is too limiting (or too hard
to specialize).

>>
>> If you are going to allow relative URI's, will that be valid for SMTP
>> too? What would be the host?
>>
>
> You're right, adding relative URI support will increase the complexity
> of the library more than I initially thought. I'm going to leave it
> out, at least for now. Implementing it later shouldn't be a problem if
> for any reason we choose to do so.
>

If there is a good reason for us to support it then I don't have any
objection to it. Right now though I don't see it yet so I'm
apprehensive still. :)

>
> Thank you for your thoughts, you might just have prevented me from
> overcomplicating things :)
>

You're welcome. :)

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