Re: boost.url review

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-08-21 18:36:42

Rainer Deyke wrote:
>    (Arbitrary percent-encoded 8-bit values are legal in URLs, but not in IRIs.)

Aren't they? I didn't find anything prohibiting them in the RFC, although I
might well have missed it.

The sections that specify the recommended way to convert between URI
and IRI do say how these are handled - a percent-encoded sequence in a
URI that doesn't correspond to a valid UTF-8 encoded code point is left
alone in the IRI. (Valid UTF-8 percent encodings are percent-decoded.)