On Sat, 4 May 2019, Aron Bergman wrote:
But why? Can you show us what benefit this brings to anyone?
As stated in the first mail, this will make it possible to use protocols
which doesn’t use the authority component. I don’t think that any of the
protocols that cURL currently implements will have any use of this change. I
see it as more of a preemptive change for future protocol implementations.
More specifically I’m thinking of the DNS protocol.
I'm not a believer in such "preemptive" changes. If the change is good for
something that might happen in the future, then I think we should wait with
doing it until that possible future event occurs.
If you want to implement support in libcurl for a protocol that has a URL
scheme for which you need to change the code, then I'm willing to discuss it.
And then I think such a discussion should first be about whether we think that
particular protocol is a good fit for curl or not!
I decided to try to implement the DNS protocol into cURL
I'm not convinced DNS is a good fit for curl.
If it is, I think we need a slightly larger code than than your proposed
change to properly handle that URL syntax (reading RFC 4501).
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