Url Alternatives

url reviews and mentions

• Cool URIs can be ugly
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2024

  Semicolon (;) has no special meaning in a URL. You can ascribe it a meaning in your particular routing, but the spec has nothing to say about it.

  https://url.spec.whatwg.org/

• People like me are why you shouldn't run a hosting company
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2023
• Support HTTP over Unix domain sockets
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Nov 2023

  https://github.com/whatwg/url/issues/577#issuecomment-118534...

  It's not insurmountable absolutely and I would appreciate it absolutely.

• URL Explained – The Fundamentals
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Nov 2023

  For the query portion, it really depends if your are reading it server side or client side and using the WHATWG standard[0] which itself just mirrors convention. However, the standard dictating how a URL might be formed does not mandate anything about the query string that makes it parsable.

  0]: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#interface-urlsearchparams

• When URL parsers disagree (CVE-2023-38633, librsvg)
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2023

  Browsers have discrepancies too of course. Here's an interesting Chromium bug I've been following: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=125253... and an associated WHATWG discussion: https://github.com/whatwg/url/issues/606

  Some multiple examples of browsers disagreeing: https://www.yagiz.co/url-parsing-and-browser-differences

• I am looking to learn everything about URLs in Web Development
  1 project | /r/AskProgramming | 9 Jun 2023
• There’s more than one way to write an IP address (2019)
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Apr 2023
• Just fighting URLSearchParams and wonder if anyone uses iterators IRL and what I do miss
  2 projects | /r/typescript | 16 Feb 2023

  What's imho missing is a size or count method. The reason they don't have one yet is because it's not clear whether it should be all tuples, or all keys. Discussion

• Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2022

  Well, [text](href) is just a lousy syntax. Quite apart from how easy it is to forget which way round it is, the way round that it is is syntactically inferior: the parentheses are URL code points <https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#url-code-points>, so URL encoding won’t percent-encode parentheses, so Markdown doesn’t actually support all valid URLs, leading to injection attacks if all you do is regular URL encoding, deliberate or accidental, and deciding where an href ends is troublesome and inconsistent, with some Markdown implementations terminating at any right parenthesis, and others trying to match parentheses as a heuristic that helps most cases. The other way round, with the href in square brackets, would have been better in this regard, as square brackets aren’t URL code points, and thus will be percent-encoded. But better still would have been to lean on angle brackets more, matching long-held custom and the other style of links Markdown already uses (just plain ). In my own lightweight markup language that I’ve been working on for a while and am now polishing up and implementing properly, I’m currently using [text ]. [text] is also quite tempting, with slightly different trade-offs.

  (When I speak of the details of URL encoding and which characters get percent-encoded, these things weren’t quite so clearly-defined back in 2004 as they are now, but I believe it was all still true.)

• A valid domain name (remove www)
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2022

  >A domain is a non-empty ASCII string that identifies a realm within a network. [RFC1034]

  >The example.com and example.com. domains are not equivalent and typically treated as distinct.

  https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-domain

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