Klarinet Archive - Posting 000201.txt from 2006/05

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fingering and tuning charts, again
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 00:27:53 -0400

David Kumpf wrote:
>> Joseph Wakeling wrote:
>>
>>> ... well, I missed a couple of possibilities. Here they are:
>>>
>>> users.adylphia.net
>>> usors.adelphia.net
>>>
>> ... which are both considered valid URLs. So it looks like
>> gmail does two things: (i) look for an http:// (or
>> similar---I imagine https://, ftp://, etc., will do), and
>> (ii) if that's missing, check for a valid high-level domain
>> in the suspected URL text, and if it's there, go with it.
>>
>
> So from a parser:
>
> <any_literal><token_period><any_literal><token_period>{<literal_net> |
> <literal_com> | <literal_org> | etc...)
>
> Joseph, will it allow:
>
> <any_literal><token_period>{<literal_net> | <literal_com> |
> <literal_org> | etc...)
>
And in another sense ... when a BNF grammar that doesn't require the
scheme to be considered a URI is applied to all my messages I shudder
... it's already bad enough that a malicious entry can be made via a uri
- leaving off the scheme and interpreting it as if it included a scheme
is downright dangerous.

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org