318112 - Make sure IDN-format TLDs can be supported

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Neil Harris]

There are current proposals for the creation of IDN-format DNS top-level domains. Since it looks likely that this will happen sooner or later, we should make sure that the infrastructure for supporting these is ready in time.

In theory, the current IDN and IDN-display-by-TLD logic will probably work with  few or no changes to the existing code; however, this needs to be tested, and bugs filed for any extra work that needs to be done to support IDN-format TLDs.

Comment 1

[Neil Harris]

As hoped, the existing code works.

Tested using stock Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

using the following in /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 test.xn--fiq228c

with the following boolean config variable set in about:config:

network.IDN.whitelist.xn--fiq228c true

and visiting

http://test.xn--fiq228c/

displays:

http://test.<Chinese characters>/

where <Chinese characters> are (hopefully, if I've got this right) the Hanji for "Chinese" in Chinese.

Comment 2

[Neil Harris]

Attachment: Image of URL bar, showing demo in above comment working...