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diff --git a/src/corelib/io/qurl.cpp b/src/corelib/io/qurl.cpp
index ad0a6b8d53..89f5aad97f 100644
--- a/src/corelib/io/qurl.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/io/qurl.cpp
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
For the convenience of generating encoded URL strings or query
strings, there are two static functions called
fromPercentEncoding() and toPercentEncoding() which deal with
- percent encoding and decoding of QStrings.
+ percent encoding and decoding of QString objects.
Calling isRelative() will tell whether or not the URL is
relative. A relative URL can be resolved by passing it as argument
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@
setters setting components of a URL; it is not permitted in
the QUrl constructor, in fromEncoded() or in setUrl().
For more information on this mode, see the documentation for
- QUrl::FullyDecoded.
+ \l {QUrl::ComponentFormattingOption}{QUrl::FullyDecoded}.
In TolerantMode, the parser has the following behaviour:
@@ -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.
*/
@@ -4041,7 +4056,7 @@ QString QUrl::errorString() const
/*!
\since 5.1
- Converts a list of \a urls into a list of QStrings, using toString(\a options).
+ Converts a list of \a urls into a list of QString objects, using toString(\a options).
*/
QStringList QUrl::toStringList(const QList<QUrl> &urls, FormattingOptions options)
{