[Qt5-feedback] QUrl (was: QMimeType)

[Ivan Čukić]

> KUrl doesn't do any parsing. It uses QUrl for parsing. Therefore, "parsing
> problems in QUrl" cannot be true, as it would be KUrl parsing problems too.

IIRC (haven't looke at kurl code in a while) it handled stuff like
"../subd/" -> "", the escaped characters, local file uris and similar
properly. I really consider that 'parsing'.

> In my view, QUrl should be modified to use *only* partially-decoded components
> and provide a method (toEncoded()) that returns the fully-encoded form for
> proper network transfer. The partially-decoded form would decode %-encodings
> that are UTF-8 sequences, including %20 to space, but not including delimiter
> characterrs (so it won't decode %3F to a question mark in a path component,
> but it would decode it in the query and fragment component).

+1

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Ivan

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