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Subject: Fwd: Handling IDN/IRI in proxy.flounder.online
From: "alex wennerberg" <alex@alexwennerberg.com>
To: "Olivier Raggi" <olivier@raggi.fr>, <~aw/flounder@lists.sr.ht>,
 <~adnano/o-emini-devel@lists.sr.ht>
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:06:14 -0800
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In-Reply-To: <CAOkQZ3eDfGzc5dZLH-xsMnAOHoMe70Pq=B1U0K8ERreTQdW=bA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue Feb 9, 2021 at 2:24 AM PST, Olivier Raggi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just to gently point out that proxy.flounder.online does not handle
> IDNs (domain names in Unicode, RFC 5890) / IRIs (Internationalized
> Resource Identifiers, RFC 3987).
> It falsely returns "Gateway error: dial tcp: <URL>: no such host"
> message.
>
> For example:
> https://proxy.flounder.online/fran%C3%A7ais.lanterne.chilliet.eu
>
> I have note that Vulpes as same behavior, but Mozz.us handle it well:
>
> - https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/fran%C3%A7ais.lanterne.chilliet.eu
> - https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/fran%C3%A7ais.lanterne.chilliet.eu/
>
> More details on IRI in Gemini:
> https://proxy.flounder.online/gemini.bortzmeyer.org/gemini/iri.gmi
>
> I know it's not a straightforward question... it's just to raise
> awareness on it.
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Olivier Raggi
> http://orx57.net/

Hi Oliver. Thanks for making me aware of this. I know this has been a
contentious issue on the mailing list.  In my case, it has to do with
the go-gemini library I use. I am forwarding it to its mailing list for
visibility.

In my view, since this has not been finalized as part of the spec yet,
we should refrain from implementing it and wait until it is. I'll leave
it to Adnano to decide

All the best,
Alex