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Package uri is meant to be an RFC 3986 compliant URI builder, parser and validator for golang.

It supports strict RFC validation for URI and URI relative references.

This allows for stricter conformance than the net/url package in the Go standard libary, which provides a workable but loose implementation of the RFC for URLs.

What's new?

master

Fixes

  • stricter IP validation (do not support escaping, excepted for IPv6 zones)
  • stricter percent-escape validation: an escaped character MUST encode a valid UTF8 endpoint

Features

  • feat: added IsIP() bool and IPAddr() netip.Addr methods

Performances

  • perf: slight improvement. Now only 8-25% slower than net/url.Parse, depending on the workload

v1.1.0

Build

  • requires go1.19

Features

  • Typed errors: parsing and validation now returns errors of type uri.Error, with a more accurate pinpointing of the error provided by the value. Errors support the go1.20 addition to standard errors with Join() and Cause(). For go1.19, backward compatibility is ensured (errors.Join() is emulated).
  • DNS schemes can be overridden at the package level

Performances

  • Significantly improved parsing speed by dropping usage of regular expressions and reducing allocations (~ x20 faster).

Fixes

  • stricter compliance regarding paths beginning with a double '/'
  • stricter compliance regarding the length of DNS names and their segments
  • stricter compliance regarding IPv6 addresses with an empty zone
  • stricter compliance regarding IPv6 vs IPv4 litterals
  • an empty IPv6 litteral [] is invalid

Known open issues

  • IRI validation lacks strictness
  • IPv6 validation relies on the standard library and lacks strictness

Other

Major refactoring to enhance code readability, esp. for testing code.

  • Refactored validations
  • Refactored test suite
  • Added support for fuzzing, dependabots & codeQL scans

Usage

Parsing

	u, err := Parse("https://example.com:8080/path")
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Invalid URI")
	} else {
		fmt.Printf("%s", u.Scheme())
	}
	// Output: https
	u, err := ParseReference("//example.com/path")
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Invalid URI reference")
	} else {
		fmt.Printf("%s", u.Authority().Path())
	}
	// Output: /path

Validating

    isValid := IsURI("urn://example.com?query=x#fragment/path") // true

    isValid= IsURI("//example.com?query=x#fragment/path") // false

    isValid= IsURIReference("//example.com?query=x#fragment/path") // true

Caveats

  • Registered name vs DNS name: RFC3986 defines a super-permissive "registered name" for hosts, for URIs not specifically related to an Internet name. Our validation performs a stricter host validation according to DNS rules whenever the scheme is a well-known IANA-registered scheme (the function UsesDNSHostValidation(string) bool is customizable).

Examples: ftp://host, http://host default to validating a proper DNS hostname.

  • IPv6 validation relies on IP parsing from the standard library. It is not super strict regarding the full-fledged IPv6 specification.

  • URI vs URL: every URL should be a URI, but the converse does not always hold. This module intends to perform stricter validation than the pragmatic standard library net/url, which currently remains about 30% faster.

  • URI vs IRI: at this moment, this module checks for URI, while supporting unicode letters as ALPHA tokens. This is not strictly compliant with the IRI specification (see known issues).

Building

The exposed type URI can be transformed into a fluent Builder to set the parts of an URI.

	aURI, _ := Parse("mailto://user@domain.com")
	newURI := auri.Builder().SetUserInfo(test.name).SetHost("newdomain.com").SetScheme("http").SetPort("443")

Canonicalization

Not supported for now (contemplated as a topic for V2).

For URL normalization, see PuerkitoBio/purell.

Reference specifications

The librarian's corner (still WIP).

Title Reference Notes
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) RFC3986 Deviations (1)(3)
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) RFC1738
Relative URL RFC1808
Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI) RFC3987 (1)
IPv6 addressing scheme reference and erratum (2)
Representing IPv6 Zone Identifiers RFC6874
IPv6 Addressing architecture RFC3513
Practical standardization guidelines URL WhatWG Living Standard (3)

(1) Deviations from the RFC:

  • Tokens: ALPHAs are tolerated to be Unicode Letter codepoints, DIGITs are tolerated to be Unicode Digit codepoints. Some improvements are needed to abide more strictly to IRIi's provisions for internationalization.

(2) IP addresses:

  • [...] litterals must be IPv6 and ddd.ddd.ddd.ddd litterals must be IPv4.
  • Notice that [] is illegal, although the golang IP parser equates this to [::] (zero value IP).
  • IPv6 zones are supported, with the '%' escaped as '%25'

(3) Percent-escape:

  • Escape sequences, e.g. %hh must decode to valid UTF-8 runes.

Credits

  • Tests have been aggregated from the test suites of URI validators from other languages: Perl, Python, Scala, .Net. and the Go url standard library.

  • This package was initially based on the work from ttacon/uri (credits: Trey Tacon).

Extra features like MySQL URIs present in the original repo have been removed.

  • A lot of improvements and suggestions have been brought by the incredible guys at fyne-io. Thanks all.

TODOs

  • [] Support IRI ucschar as unreserved characters
  • [] Support IRI iprivate in query
  • [] Prepare v2. See the proposal
  • [] Revisit URI vs IRI support & strictness, possibly with options (V2?)
  • [] Other investigations

Notes

ucschar        = %xA0-D7FF / %xF900-FDCF / %xFDF0-FFEF
                  / %x10000-1FFFD / %x20000-2FFFD / %x30000-3FFFD
                  / %x40000-4FFFD / %x50000-5FFFD / %x60000-6FFFD
                  / %x70000-7FFFD / %x80000-8FFFD / %x90000-9FFFD
                  / %xA0000-AFFFD / %xB0000-BFFFD / %xC0000-CFFFD
                  / %xD0000-DFFFD / %xE1000-EFFFD
iprivate       = %xE000-F8FF / %xF0000-FFFFD / %x100000-10FFFD

		// TODO: RFC6874
		//  A <zone_id> SHOULD contain only ASCII characters classified as
   		// "unreserved" for use in URIs [RFC3986].  This excludes characters
   		// such as "]" or even "%" that would complicate parsing.  However, the
   		// syntax described below does allow such characters to be percent-
   		// encoded, for compatibility with existing devices that use them.

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