From 229930762fbbeec14ec6544d180f12958c86f330 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 15:35:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] url: if IDNA conversion fails, fallback to Transitional

This improves IDNA2003 compatiblity.

Reported-by: Bubu on github
Fixes #6423
Closes #6428
---
 lib/url.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/url.c b/lib/url.c
index 60ba56dae6..ab56760de1 100644
--- a/lib/url.c
+++ b/lib/url.c
@@ -1541,6 +1541,11 @@ CURLcode Curl_idnconvert_hostname(struct connectdata *conn,
       int flags = IDN2_NFC_INPUT;
 #endif
       int rc = idn2_lookup_ul((const char *)host->name, &ace_hostname, flags);
+      if(rc != IDN2_OK)
+        /* fallback to TR46 Transitional mode for better IDNA2003
+           compatibility */
+        rc = idn2_lookup_ul((const char *)host->name, &ace_hostname,
+                            IDN2_TRANSITIONAL);
       if(rc == IDN2_OK) {
         host->encalloc = (char *)ace_hostname;
         /* change the name pointer to point to the encoded hostname */