Re: Boost.URL: Something Wicked This Way Comes!

From: Julien Blanc (julien.blanc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-10-14 07:34:48

Le 2021-10-13 16:54, Vinnie Falco a écrit :
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 11:24 PM Julien Blanc via Boost

>> And then there's the issue of the '/' character in
>> set_path if you take unencoded strings (not sure how this should be
>> handled...)
> 
> Well, there's not much of an issue there. set_path() treats slashes as
> segment separators. If that's not what you want, you can set the
> individual unencoded segments through the container returned by
> url::segments(). The same goes for the query parameters (call
> url::params()).

I'm not at ease with that. If i build a mailto: uri, and call set_path 
with a email address containing a / character in it (such as 
valid/email_at_[hidden]), it will result in a uri containing two 
segments, which is nonsense for a mailto scheme (and obviously not what 
i expected).

I understand the api is fitted toward web uris, but i see there a 
potential for hard to find bugs due to api misuse. Maybe it's just the 
naming that needs to be improved.

Regards,

Julien