<idn> Element (Uri Settings)

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09/15/2021

Specifies if Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) parsing is applied to a domain name.

Syntax

<idn
  enabled="All|AllExceptIntranet|None"
/>

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

Element	Description
`enabled`	Specifies if Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) parsing is applied to a domain name The default value is none.

Child elements

None

Parent elements

Element	Description
uri	Contains settings that specify how the .NET Framework handles web addresses expressed using uniform resource identifiers (URIs).

Remarks

The existing Uri class has been extended in .NET Framework 3.5. 3.0 SP1, and 2.0 SP1 with support for International Resource Identifiers (IRI) and Internationalized Domain Names (IDN). Current users will not see any change from the .NET Framework 2.0 behavior unless they specifically enable IRI and IDN support. This ensures application compatibility with prior versions of the .NET Framework.

To enable support for IRI, the following two changes are required:

Add the following line to the machine.config file under the .NET Framework 2.0 directory:

<section name="uri" type="System.Configuration.UriSection, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />

Specify whether you want Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) parsing applied to the domain name and whether IRI parsing rules should be applied. This can be done in the machine.config or in the app.config file.

There are three possible values for IDN depending on the DNS servers that are used:

idn enabled = All

This value will convert any Unicode domain names to their Punycode equivalents (IDN names).
idn enabled = AllExceptIntranet

This value will convert all Unicode domain names not on the local Intranet to use the Punycode equivalents (IDN names). In this case to handle international names on the local Intranet, the DNS servers that are used for the Intranet should support Unicode name resolution.
idn enabled = None

This value will not convert any Unicode domain names to use Punycode. This is the default value which is consistent with the .NET Framework 2.0 behavior.

Enabling IDN will convert all Unicode labels in a domain name to their Punycode equivalents. Punycode names contain only ASCII characters and always start with the xn-- prefix. The reason for this is to support existing DNS servers on the Internet, since most DNS servers only support ASCII characters (see RFC 3940).

Configuration files

This element can be used in the application configuration file or the machine configuration file (Machine.config).

Example

The following example shows a configuration used by the Uri class to support IRI parsing and IDN names:

<configuration>
  <uri>
    <idn enabled="All" />
    <iriParsing enabled="true" />
  </uri>
</configuration>

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