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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2020-12-13 13:02:16 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2020-12-13 14:47:22 +0100 |
| commit | 1e282cb64e296d70588d668ea3ac9f1b54b86b53 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c743a1fcdf01851eaa371f8fd0b41da517fc0d2 | |
| parent | 4e7e2dd20e2a56e70ce0c9c43071bccd88f98ba4 (diff) | |
| download | curl-bagder/URL-portnumbers.tar.gz | |
URL-SYNTAX: mention IDNA detailsbagder/URL-portnumbers
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diff --git a/docs/URL-SYNTAX.md b/docs/URL-SYNTAX.md index add4b27b1..d8fcc9255 100644 --- a/docs/URL-SYNTAX.md +++ b/docs/URL-SYNTAX.md @@ -167,9 +167,16 @@ brackets). For example: http://[2001:1890:1112:1::20]/ +### IDNA + If curl was built with International Domain Name (IDN) support, it can also handle host names using non-ASCII characters. +curl supports IDN host names using the IDNA 2008 standard. This differs from +browsers that follow the WHATWG URL spec, which dictates IDNA 2003 to be used. +The two standards have a huge overlap but differ slightly, perhaps most +famously in how they deal with the German "double s" (`ß`). + ## Port number If there's a colon after the hostname, that should be followed by the port |