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episode 22 — Rust URL with Simon Sapin.
In this episode of Netstack.fm, Simon Sapin discusses building the rust-url crate based on the WHATWG URL specification. He also highlights that IDNA support was integrated to handle internationalized domain names, which includes critical security checks to prevent phishing from "confusable" characters that look identical to users.
Learn more:
- https://docs.rs/url — rust-url is an implementation of the URL Standard for the Rust programming language
- https://docs.rs/idna — IDNA (Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications) and Punycode
- https://docs.rs/idna_adapter — unicode back end for the idna crate
- https://docs.rs/form_urlencoded — Parser and serializer for the application/x-www-form-urlencoded syntax, as used by HTML forms
- https://docs.rs/percent-encoding — Percent encoding and decoding
- https://servo.org/ — official servo website
- https://url.spec.whatwg.org/ — WHATWG URL Specificaton
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5890 — Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA) (RFC)
- https://exyr.org/ — official website of Simon Sapin
Rama
If you like this podcast you might also like our modular network framework in Rust: https://ramaproxy.org
Chapters
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:50 Get to know Simon Sapin
- 05:35 Origin of rust-url
- 07:19 Implementing Specifications in Rust
- 10:05 Understanding IDNA and Its Importance
- 11:17 Origins of form-url / percent encoding crates
- 12:36 The Role of Percent Encoding in URLs
- 13:21 IDNA Crate Origin
- 15:41 Challenges with IDNA and Usability
- 30:13 unpacking the rust-url crate
- 39:25 Understanding URL Specifications and Compatibility
- 45:10 Url Crate Parser
- 52:41 Surprising Insights into URL Implementation
- 01:01:41 Final words
- 01:14:07 Outro
Netstack.FM
- More information: https://netstack.fm/#episode-22
- Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/29EetaSYCD
- Reach out to us: [email protected]
Music for this episode was composed by Dj Mailbox. Listen to his music at https://on.soundcloud.com/4MRyPSNj8FZoVGpytj
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In this episode of Netstack.fm, Simon Sapin discusses building the rust-url crate based on the WHATWG URL specification. He also highlights that IDNA support was integrated to handle internationalized domain names, which includes critical security checks to prevent phishing from "confusable" characters that look identical to users.
Learn more:
- https://docs.rs/url — rust-url is an implementation of the URL Standard for the Rust programming language
- https://docs.rs/idna — IDNA (Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications) and Punycode
- https://docs.rs/idna_adapter — unicode back end for the idna crate
- https://docs.rs/form_urlencoded — Parser and serializer for the application/x-www-form-urlencoded syntax, as used by HTML forms
- https://docs.rs/percent-encoding — Percent encoding and decoding
- https://servo.org/ — official servo website
- https://url.spec.whatwg.org/ — WHATWG URL Specificaton
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5890 — Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA) (RFC)
- https://exyr.org/ — official website of Simon Sapin
Rama
If you like this podcast you might also like our modular network framework in Rust: https://ramaproxy.org
Chapters
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:50 Get to know Simon Sapin
- 05:35 Origin of rust-url
- 07:19 Implementing Specifications in Rust
- 10:05 Understanding IDNA and Its Importance
- 11:17 Origins of form-url / percent encoding crates
- 12:36 The Role of Percent Encoding in URLs
- 13:21 IDNA Crate Origin
- 15:41 Challenges with IDNA and Usability
- 30:13 unpacking the rust-url crate
- 39:25 Understanding URL Specifications and Compatibility
- 45:10 Url Crate Parser
- 52:41 Surprising Insights into URL Implementation
- 01:01:41 Final words
- 01:14:07 Outro
Netstack.FM
- More information: https://netstack.fm/#episode-22
- Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/29EetaSYCD
- Reach out to us: [email protected]
Music for this episode was composed by Dj Mailbox. Listen to his music at https://on.soundcloud.com/4MRyPSNj8FZoVGpytj