On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 07:25:41PM +0100, Björn Persson wrote:
> `curl-minimal`+`libcurl-minimal` are compiled with various
> semi-obsolete protocols and infrequently-used features disabled:
> DICT, GOPHER, IMAP, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, NTLM, POP3, RTSP, SMB, SMTP,
> SFTP, SCP, TELNET, TFTP, brotli compression, IDN2 names.
Disabling IDNA makes libcurl-minimal suited only for programs that only
communicate with a predefined set of servers in ASCII-only domains. Any
program that accepts user-provided URLs will need curl-full to be able
to handle arbitrary domain names, even if the program speaks only HTTPS,
HTTP and FTP.
Yes. But how many domains using idn are there? I worked on idn support
in systemd, but when preparing the description of this change I realized
that I have _never_ once used an idn domain outside of testing.
And note that this is not about user-facing programs like firefox.
I assume that there might be _some_ use of idn in firefox. But for
command-line tools like curl this seems even less likely.
Zbyszek