[whatwg] Question about document.referrer (and document.URL, document.location.href) when IDN domains are in use

Anne van Kesteren annevk at annevk.nl
Fri Jul 12 12:04:57 PDT 2013


On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
> If nothing else because that seems user-hostile (both to web developers
> examining location values and users who are shown document.URL or
> location.href in web pages).

But then we shouldn't garble pathname either and we do because we have
to. So I'm not sure that line of reasoning makes sense. I do think we
should offer some kind of conversion utility between the two.


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