Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] URI

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

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Jeroen Habraken <vex...@gm...> wrote:
>
> FYI, committed HTTP support.
>

Cool!

> All the initial tests now run, and only the one testing whether
> "http://www-.boost.org/" is invalid fails. It turns out the hostname
> is valid according to the URI specification, but it's considered
> invalid by DNS. Thus when using another name lookup provider such as
> the hosts file -/etc/hosts on linux-, it is valid, but I'll have to
> double check this.
>

Oh, if it's valid according to the URI specification then we should be
fine. We can change the docs and the tests to say that we're accepting
these types of URI's but that the DNS system may not be happy with
"malformed" FQDN's.

Thanks Jeroen! Hopefully I'll get a pull request to merge soon.

-- 
Dean Michael Berris
cplusplus-soup.com | twitter.com/deanberris
linkedin.com/in/mikhailberis | facebook.com/dean.berris | deanberris.com