Lines starting with # in urltestdata.txt are skipped

[zcorpan]

https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/blob/master/url/urltestdata.txt#L30 is intended to be a test but is a comment. (ack @xiaojunwu )

[annevk]

This would require some special casing I guess. Not sure what would be clearest. Support #?

[zcorpan]

\# seems like a good solution I think.

[annevk]

I'm not super interested in maintaining this. Maybe @azakus is interested now Polymer hosts the JavaScript library?

[sideshowbarker]

I wonder if @smola might be willing to take over maintaining it. galamatias also uses that file in its test harness

[smola]

In galimatias I switched to vim-style comments (prefixed with --). That solved the problem for me. Supporting \# sounds good too.

With respect maintenance, I'll be happy to help.

[zcorpan]

-- doesn't seem to solve the problem if you want to test URLs starting with -- :-)

[smola]

@zcorpan Of course. \- would be needed. \# is probably the best solution, since # is more widespread than -- for comments. That's bikeshedding anyway ;-)

[hallvors]

Duplicate of issue #500 or vice versa? Let's say vice versa since this has more comments.