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| author | Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com> | 2015-02-10 08:26:14 -0800 |
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| committer | Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com> | 2015-02-16 05:31:17 +0000 |
| commit | afb52763aa759b3b60be2816212af04d0063595c (patch) | |
| tree | a7b918c2cc9bffc6e64f557811092847b228dc4a | |
| parent | ab3113b679922e5232d56a9532c4330b8986e493 (diff) | |
Doc: clarify what QUrl::topLevelDomain actually does
Task-number: QTBUG-44390
Change-Id: I1a800c709d3543699131ffff13c19789a12dac0b
Reviewed-by: Martin Smith <martin.smith@digia.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard J. Moore <rich@kde.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | src/corelib/io/qurl.cpp | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/corelib/io/qurl.cpp b/src/corelib/io/qurl.cpp index eb97eaf6d6..f459928110 100644 --- a/src/corelib/io/qurl.cpp +++ b/src/corelib/io/qurl.cpp @@ -3083,6 +3083,21 @@ bool QUrl::hasFragment() const URL does not contain a valid TLD, in which case the function returns an empty string. + Note that this function considers a TLD to be any domain that allows users + to register subdomains under, including many home, dynamic DNS websites and + blogging providers. This is useful for determining whether two websites + belong to the same infrastructure and communication should be allowed, such + as browser cookies: two domains should be considered part of the same + website if they share at least one label in addition to the value + returned by this function. + + \list + \li \c{foo.co.uk} and \c{foo.com} do not share a top-level domain + \li \c{foo.co.uk} and \c{bar.co.uk} share the \c{.co.uk} domain, but the next label is different + \li \c{www.foo.co.uk} and \c{ftp.foo.co.uk} share the same top-level domain and one more label, + so they are considered part of the same site + \endlist + If \a options includes EncodeUnicode, the returned string will be in ASCII Compatible Encoding. */ |