[Python-Dev] [ssl] The weird case of IDNA (original) (raw)

Nathaniel Smith njs at pobox.com
Sun Dec 31 20:51:47 EST 2017

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 09:07:01AM -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:

This is another reason why we ought to let users do their own IDNA handling if they want... I expect that letting users do their own IDNA handling will correspond to not doing any IDNA handling at all.

You did see the words "if they want", right? I'm not talking about removing the stdlib's default IDNA handling, I'm talking about fixing the cases where the stdlib goes out of its way to prevent users from overriding its IDNA handling.

And "users" here is a very broad category; it includes libraries like requests, twisted, trio, ... that are already doing better IDNA handling than the stdlib, except in cases where the stdlib actively prevents it.

-n

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