[swift-server-dev] [Bug] Foundation.URL should support semicolon(; ) appearing in URL path

[Jacob Bandes-Storch]

Another option might be to introduce a separate type, such as "URI", which
uses only the new behavior.
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 9:05 AM Tony Parker <anthony.parker at apple.com>
wrote:

> For what it’s worth, we had this discussion in a PR already:
>
> https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/pull/664
>
> The issue here is that the compatibility API in question is NSURL/URL, and
> we want to maintain compatibility between it and
> NSURLComponents/URLComponents. Therefore this code chooses to percent
> encode the ;.
>
> If/when we change the behavior of NSURL/URL itself (which we have to do
> carefully, as many apps out there rely on its nuances), then we can change
> this one as well. This code is shared on all of our platforms so we can't
> forget about the consequences for darwin API as well.
> I think the best place for this patch right now is in a JIRA, so we can
> track updating these together in the future.
>
>
> It’s not impossible to change, but we still want to maintain
> cross-platform behavior so we would need to change it in Darwin as well.
> And to change it there, we want it to be consistent behavior between NSURL
> and NSURLComponents. And to change NSURL we have to be careful about the
> consequences of changing the behavior under all existing apps. We have
> first hand experience with changes in NSURL causing strange behavior in
> other apps.
>
> - Tony
>
> On Oct 27, 2016, at 2:24 AM, Chris Bailey via swift-server-dev <
> swift-server-dev at swift.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Jacob:
>
> This should really be posted to swift-corelibs-dev, which covers the
> Foundation library which covers URL and URLComponents - there's more people
> on that list that are likely to pick this up.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
> From:        Jacob Bandes-Storch via swift-server-dev <
> swift-server-dev at swift.org>
> To:        swift-server-dev at swift.org
> Date:        27/10/2016 07:24
> Subject:        Re: [swift-server-dev] [Bug] Foundation.URL should
> support semicolon(; ) appearing in URL path
> Sent by:        swift-server-dev-bounces at swift.org
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>
>
> Sorry for fake threading, the original message was sent before I
> subscribed to this list.
>
> *http://host/book;id=1/page;2/* <http://host/book;id=1/page;2/>
> this URL is a valid URL, but URLComponents will ruin it with %3B
> *http://host/book%3Bid=1/page%3B2/* <http://host/book%3Bid=1/page%3B2/>
> Since Swift Server is coming out, this bug should be solved.
>
> Just wanted to point out some related bugs that I have filed in the past:
>
> - *https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-21*
> <https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-21>
>
> - rdar://23241861  "NSFont fontWithDescriptor:size: fails when passed a
> URL with a semicolon in it" (marked as dupe of rdar://22424272)
>
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