Re: [idn] Web navigation for IDN resolving

["James Seng/Personal" <jseng@pobox.org.sg>]

While it is an interesting observation, the discussion of (right or wrong)
behavior of specific commerical/non-commerical software are better done
outside this wg.

The discussion of the how URL is to be encoded and how Host: field are to be
handled is probably more relevant so lets get back to that.

-James Seng

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edmon Chung" <edmon@neteka.com>
To: "tsenglm@計網中心.中大.tw" <tsenglm@cc.ncu.edu.tw>; <idn@ops.ietf.org>;
<yves_arrouye@hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [idn] Web navigation for IDN resolving


> This is a rather interesting and serious observation.  Does it not
therefore
> mean that RealNames/MS is effectively hijacking all IDN requests through
an
> IE browser?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tsenglm@計網中心.中大.tw" <tsenglm@cc.ncu.edu.tw>
> To: <idn@ops.ietf.org>; <yves_arrouye@hotmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 5:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [idn] Web navigation for IDN resolving
>
>
> > Dear Yves Arrouye:
> >          Thanks your descriptions.   I think this message  from Mr.
> YangWoo
> > Ko (newcat@spsoft.co.kr) is the key point:
> > I am still wondering what "looks like a domain name" means
> >
> > >
> > > The DNS lookup happened *before* the string was URL-encoded and passed
> to
> > > Autosearch, which only happen after a failure.
> >           The ASCII Domain Name (even without dot) will be  put to do
DNS
> > lookup first, but IDN domain name will not . The IDN  will be
intercepted
> to
> > auto.search.msn.com  directly without doing DNS lookup.  That means the
> IDN
> > input with native coded string without http://  protocol head will be
> > interpreted as  "not a legal domain name"  by IE.
> >           The server of  Realname can not found these IDN in non
contract
> > supporting, so it is an error for Realname or IDN resolving, but the
> return
> > error cause the halting of browser will disturb the further regular
> > processing of these UTF-8 IDN.   That is my understanding of these
strange
> > processing to IDN .
> >
> > L.M.Tseng
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>