Bug 424943

Hostname is converted lower case by QUrl by default (see: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qurl.html#UrlFormattingOption-enum) as stated in many RFC documents, even dolphin is "affected" ((s)ftp is handled by kio-extras, which does not manage the given urls).

So, the "bug" is in QUrl class used in Krusader and Dolphin when they use a kio-extras component.

This can be reproduce in almost every browser, all url are converted lowercase; obviously, the fastest solution is to manage the host to respond with lowercase (aside or instead of uppercase). Managing this in kio could be a hard solution.

Created attachment 130761 [details]
attachment-30233-0.html

If this is the behavior - converting the hostname to lowercase - then do I
correct my problem by defining and using only lower case letters in the
hostname?

The issue I reported as a bug (id=424943) was due to the behavior of the
app in changing the case of the host name and then not finding a match.

It's fine if the code does this, but some notation should be made in the
user's guide that this is the expected behavior.
I would not go to the trouble (and should not be expected) to read an RFC
to determine that a hostname will be converted to lowercase.

Let me know if I should -  or if you can, close the bug with a reason.

Dave Clifford



On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 3:22 AM Davide Gianforte <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org>
wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424943
>
> Davide Gianforte <davide@gengisdave.org> changed:
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>            What    |Removed                     |Added
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>              Status|REPORTED                    |NEEDSINFO
>          Resolution|---                         |WAITINGFORINFO
>                  CC|                            |davide@gengisdave.org
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> --- Comment #1 from Davide Gianforte <davide@gengisdave.org> ---
> Hostname is converted lower case by QUrl by default (see:
> https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qurl.html#UrlFormattingOption-enum) as stated in
> many
> RFC documents, even dolphin is "affected" ((s)ftp is handled by kio-extras,
> which does not manage the given urls).
>
> So, the "bug" is in QUrl class used in Krusader and Dolphin when they use a
> kio-extras component.
>
> This can be reproduce in almost every browser, all url are converted
> lowercase;
> obviously, the fastest solution is to manage the host to respond with
> lowercase
> (aside or instead of uppercase). Managing this in kio could be a hard
> solution.
>
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I should check if a server could respond case-insensitive; meanwhile, the user warning is a good idea.

Also, how do you resolve the host address? If you use /etc/hosts can you try adding a second line with the host in lowercase?