Re: LuaSocket HTTP module ignores URI scheme

[Bertrand Mansion <lua@...>]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Petite Abeille
<petite.abeille@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 26, 2011, at 3:29 AM, Diego Nehab wrote:
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>> Hmmm, the alternative would be to return an error and abort the request, right?
>> What else is there to do? Would that be preferrable? Maybe.
>
> Personally I would not put any such check in the http module and leave it as it is.
>
> After all, one might very well use whatever schema they want, for whatever reason, and still need to speak http over it, e.g.:
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> http.request( 'fubar://localhost' )
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> It shouldn't be the business of the http module to dictate what schema one is using, but rather just handle the protocol mechanism, as it does today.
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>> It never occurred to me that somebody would send an http.request on
>> something that was not an http URL.
>
> It could. The important thing is not the URL schema, but rather the intent to speak HTTP over it.

Indeed. For example, there is a dav:// and a opaquelocktoken:// scheme
that work over http and are registered schemes:
http://www.w3.org/wiki/UriSchemes/dav
http://www.w3.org/wiki/UriSchemes/opaquelocktoken

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Bertrand Mansion
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