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In cases where there are multiple @-chars in a url, Node currently parses the hostname and auth sections differently than web browsers. This part of the bug is serious, and should be landed in v0.10, and also ported to v0.8, and releases made as soon as possible. The less serious issue is that there are many other sorts of malformed urls which Node either accepts when it should reject, or interprets differently than web browsers. For example, `http://a.com*foo` is interpreted by Node like `http://a.com/*foo` when web browsers treat this as `http://a.com%3Bfoo/`. In general, *only* the `hostEndingChars` should be the characters that delimit the host portion of the URL. Most of the current `nonHostChars` that appear in the hostname should be escaped, but some of them (such as `;` and `%` when it does not introduce a hex pair) should raise an error. We need to have a broader discussion about whether it's best to throw in these cases, and potentially break extant programs, or return an object that has every field set to `null` so that any attempt to read the hostname/auth/etc. will appear to be empty.
Evented I/O for V8 javascript. 
To build:
Prerequisites (Unix only):
* GCC 4.2 or newer
* Python 2.6 or 2.7
* GNU Make 3.81 or newer
* libexecinfo (FreeBSD and OpenBSD only)
Unix/Macintosh:
./configure
make
make install
If your python binary is in a non-standard location or has a non-standard name, run the following instead:
export PYTHON=/path/to/python
$PYTHON ./configure
make
make install
Windows:
vcbuild.bat
To run the tests:
Unix/Macintosh:
make test
Windows:
vcbuild.bat test
To build the documentation:
make doc
To read the documentation:
man doc/node.1