Bug 379195

Summary:	Konversation can't handle IDN urls
Product:	[Applications] konversation	Reporter:	bugs5.kde.org
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konversation Developers <konversation-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	peter.simonsson
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.6
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description bugs5.kde.org 2017-04-25 13:53:29 UTC

Well, I just read an article about IDN urls and how they are used for phishing. One of the examples given was https://www.xn--80ak6aa92e.com/ (not apple) which shows in some browsers as apple.com.

Anway, when I paste that url in Konversation and click on it to open it, an error message pops up:

Malformed URL
Invalid hostname (contains invalid characters); source was "https://www..com/"; scheme = "https", host = "", path = "/"


The URL is correct but it seems Konversation can't handle IDN urls properly.

Comment 1 Peter Simonsson 2017-04-25 15:21:21 UTC

So far it seems the problem is QUrl::toEncoded() not returning the punycoded url

Comment 2 Peter Simonsson 2017-04-25 16:08:36 UTC

Seems it's some form of phishing protection in QUrl that kicks in as other punycode urls works fine. For example http://xn--6kry05bl4a.no works fine. So I'll close this one as phishing isn't really a good usecase. ;)