From: Ray Chen <ray.c.chen@...>
Date: 2006-08-15T08:22:14+09:00
Subject: _ in URI subdomain problem

Hi,

I am currently working with some code for fetching webpages, and I have 
run into a problem.  The current implementation does not fetch webpages 
with _ in the subdomain, for ex http://a_b.google.com.

I have poked around the forum posts and read that the _ in the subdomain 
violates an RFC standand, but in my case it is necessary to retrieve 
those pages regardless.  Before I dive a bit more into this code that I 
inherited, has anyone successfully retrieved such pages?

The code uses URI.parse for URI parsing and Net::HTTP for page 
retrieval.  Currently the code breaks at the URI.parse.  Will it suffice 
just to rewrite the URI.parse or do I need to find an alternative to 
Net::HTTP as well?

Thanks in advance.

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