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Feature #4270

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Resolv does not handle UTF8 domain names.

Added by postmodern (Hal Brodigan) almost 14 years ago. Updated over 11 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Target version:
[ruby-core:34394]

Description

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Resolv.getaddress(es) cannot handle UTF8 domain names:

Steps to reproduce error:

 Resolv.getaddress('∞.com')

Expected result:

 174.132.17.93

Actual result:

 Encoding::CompatibilityError: incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT
from /home/hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/resolv.rb:757:in `[]='
from /home/hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/resolv.rb:757:in `sender'
from /home/hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/resolv.rb:504:in `block in each_resource'
from /home/hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/resolv.rb:1000:in `block (3 levels) in resolv'
from /home/hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/resolv.rb:998:in `each'
from /home/hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/resolv.rb:998:in `block (2 levels) in resolv'
from /home/hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/resolv.rb:997:in `each'
from /home/hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/resolv.rb:997:in `block in resolv'
from /home/hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/resolv.rb:995:in `each'
from /home/hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/resolv.rb:995:in `resolv'
from /home/hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/resolv.rb:498:in `each_resource'
from /home/hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/resolv.rb:391:in `each_address'
from /home/hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/resolv.rb:115:in `block in each_address'
from /home/hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/resolv.rb:114:in `each'
from /home/hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/resolv.rb:114:in `each_address'
from /home/hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/resolv.rb:92:in `getaddress'
from /home/hal/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/resolv.rb:43:in `getaddress'

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Actions #1

Updated by sorah (Sorah Fukumori) almost 14 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Rejected

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UTF-8 domain names are punycode, so you should encode utf-8 domain name to punycode domain name.

Like

Resolv.getaddress('xn--59g.com')
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Actions #2

Updated by postmodern (Hal Brodigan) almost 14 years ago

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Charles Nutter (@headius (Charles Nutter)) suggested a way for the code to fail less loudly. https://gist.github.com/775696

If Resolv is going to explicitly not support UTF8 domain names, it should raise a descriptive ArgumentError.
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Actions #3

Updated by sorah (Sorah Fukumori) almost 14 years ago

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Please request again as feature request.
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Actions #4

Updated by nahi (Hiroshi Nakamura) almost 14 years ago

  • Status changed from Rejected to Open

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Reopening since I moved this to 'Feature'. Isn't it enough?
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Actions #5

Updated by sorah (Sorah Fukumori) almost 14 years ago

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I forgot moving feature in Redmine..
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Actions #6

Updated by usa (Usaku NAKAMURA) almost 14 years ago

  • Category set to lib
  • Status changed from Open to Assigned
  • Assignee set to akr (Akira Tanaka)

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Updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh) about 12 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
  • Target version set to 2.6

Updated by steakknife (Barry Allard) over 11 years ago

We've been using a monkey patch based on gnu libidn's functions for rfcs 3490, 3491 & 3492.

Here's an extract of the critical functions (toASCII and toUNICODE), please feel free to hack/fork/comment/etc: https://gist.github.com/5328637 (Unit tests included).

=> Resolv::Unicode.to_ascii('一流大學.中国')
"xn--4gqt5y3xbky5a.xn--fiqs8s"
=>

PING xn--4gqt5y3xbky5a.xn--fiqs8s (158.125.1.208): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 158.125.1.208: icmp_seq=0 ttl=46 time=168.616 ms
64 bytes from 158.125.1.208: icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=163.608 ms

Updated by akr (Akira Tanaka) over 11 years ago

It is not appropriate to use external library from bundled library such as resolv.rb.

Updated by steakknife (Barry Allard) over 11 years ago

That was a rough suggestion that works right now, it's definitely not perfect. It makes sense for someone to create an autotools patch that detects libidn, setup lib and include paths and refactor ruby glue code to eliminate idn-ruby dependency (not the older idn gem). The code for libidn is very complicated (feel free to read the RFC's if you like), better to link against it rather than refactor to Ruby because it's a known quantity.

I think first it would need a discussion to decide how/when to perform unicode conversions with minimal breakage, be DRY and predictable.

Updated by steakknife (Barry Allard) over 11 years ago

For now, I've rolled up some code into a gem: resolv-idn

Updated by akr (Akira Tanaka) over 11 years ago

  • Status changed from Assigned to Closed

It seems this feature is provided by a gem.

So I close this issue now.

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