My url isn't your url

Re:My url isn't your url by pygy_ on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @08:40AM (#11674688)

However, the JS gettters are all over the place...

Given this:

    a = document.createElement('a')
    a.href = "/ö/o?ö/o#ö/o"
    console.log(a.hash, a.pathname, a.search)

we get:

    Browser  .hash       .pathname   .search 
 
    Chrome   #ö/o        /%C3%B6/o   ?%C3%B6/o  
    Firefox  #%C3%B6/o   /%C3%B6/o   ?%C3%B6/o  
    Safari   #%C3%B6/o   /%C3%B6/o   ?%C3%B6/o  
    Edge     #ö/o        /ö/o        ?ö/o  
    IE11     #ö/o        ö/o (ouch)  ?ö/o

Likewise for domains, some UAs return them Punycoded (but don't provide a decoder), some in Unicode, and PhantomJS passes it percent encoded...

It's a big mess.

I discovered this while working on a SPA router that can handle routes in either `pathname`, `search` or `hash` mode... The routes are defined as the keys of a JS object, in Unicode in the source, and we have to juggle back and forth to match what `document.location.*` returns.

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Re:My url isn't your url by kmike84 on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:21PM (#11680925)

It looks like Developer tools also use these JS utilities, so you can't trust Network tab when checking what URL is sent to a remote server; to check what's being sent one have to either inspect network traffic or check it server side.

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