Re: Boost.URL: Something Wicked This Way Comes! (Was: Needs Review)

From: Alex Christensen (achristensen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-10-12 17:57:35

Why did you use RFC 3986 as your specification?  How do you feel about the WhatWG URL specification at https://url.spec.whatwg.org <https://url.spec.whatwg.org/>?  It has a large body of tests at https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/blob/master/url/resources/urltestdata.json <https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/blob/master/url/resources/urltestdata.json> that you may consider looking at.

Do you have any general plan for a strategy for handling non-ASCII input?  I haven’t tested it yet, but what do you plan to do if someone passes a UTF-8 encoded non-ASCII string into the constructor?

> On Oct 12, 2021, at 8:54 AM, Vinnie Falco via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> Folx:
> 
> Well, I was on a pause but I picked Boost.URL back up and whipped it
> into shape. The good news, this Belle is ready for the Ball ! I invite
> you to kick the tires and light the fires on the next major component
> in my line of network and protocol libraries:
> 
> Repository
> <https://github.com/CPPAlliance/url/>
> 
> Documentation
> <https://master.url.cpp.al/>
> 
> Docs are still being worked on, of course (docs are never "done").
> `url_view`, `url`, `static_url`, and `authority_view` should be
> completely solid and ready to get beat up. And I'm ready for all that
> lovely negative feedback !!!
> 
> If a kind soul would like to volunteer to be the review manager, that
> would be swell.
> 
> I'm very happy to answer any questions about the library, and happy to
> get feedback regarding the design and implementation.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Vinnie
> 
> Follow me on GitHub: https://github.com/vinniefalco
> 
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