From: Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...>
Date: 2008-11-21T08:20:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Found a ruby bug in the URI class, what do I do?

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Ben Johnson <bjohnson@binarylogic.com> wrote:

>>> URI.parse("http://whatever_again.domain.com")
> URI::InvalidURIError: the scheme http does not accept registry part:
> whatever_again.domain.com (or bad hostname?)

> When you add an underscore the sub domain it raises an exception, even
> though that is a perfectly valid host name.

No, it's not. Check the DNS RFCs: A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and the hyphen are
the only legal characters.

FWIW,
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