Re: [xml] xmlURIEscape and user authentication

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:58:03AM -0700, Mark_Vakoc peoplesoft com wrote:
> xmlURIEscape seems to trample on the user part of a URI.  xmlSaveUri
> assumes a http style uri (http://user somewhere com/) and doesn't work
> properly for mailto type schemes, but for libxml2 that is probably ok.

  Well each scheme has it own escaping rules which makes generic escaping
quite messy.

> However calling the following:
>
> xmlUriEscape(BAD_CAST "http://user somewhere com") results in
> "http:user@//somewhere.com".  The attach patch fixes that, but still does

  oops :-) okay, applied !

> not properly handle the mailto type scheme.  Again, probalby not a problem
> for libxml2 and would be difficult to fix without adding lots of scheme
> specific logic.

  yeah. However if short I'm not against adding said logic, especially
for a scheme as common as "mail:" . However libxml2 itself should not
need it for its own processing.

Daniel

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