rust-bitcoin · jamillambert · Nov 25, 2025 · Nov 26, 2025
diff --git a/Cargo-minimal.lock b/Cargo-minimal.lock
@@ -161,7 +161,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "base64 0.22.1",
  "chrono",
  "log",
- "punycode",
  "rustls",
  "rustls-native-certs",
  "rustls-webpki",
@@ -542,12 +541,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-ident",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "punycode"
-version = "0.4.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e9e1dcb320d6839f6edb64f7a4a59d39b30480d4d1765b56873f7c858538a5fe"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "quote"
 version = "1.0.36"

diff --git a/Cargo-recent.lock b/Cargo-recent.lock
@@ -161,7 +161,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "base64 0.22.1",
  "chrono",
  "log",
- "punycode",
  "rustls",
  "rustls-native-certs",
  "rustls-webpki",
@@ -564,12 +563,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-ident",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "punycode"
-version = "0.4.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e9e1dcb320d6839f6edb64f7a4a59d39b30480d4d1765b56873f7c858538a5fe"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "quote"
 version = "1.0.38"

diff --git a/bitreq/Cargo.toml b/bitreq/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ maintenance = { status = "experimental" }
 [dependencies]
 # For the urlencoding feature:
 urlencoding = { version = "2.1.0", optional = true }
-# For the punycode feature:
-punycode = { version = "0.4.1", optional = true }
 # For the json-using-serde feature:
 serde = { version = "1.0.101", optional = true }
 serde_json = { version = "1.0.0", optional = true }
@@ -40,7 +38,7 @@ tiny_http = "0.12"
 chrono = "0.4.0"
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
-features = ["json-using-serde", "proxy", "https", "punycode"]
+features = ["json-using-serde", "proxy", "https"]
 
 [features]
 default = ["std"]

diff --git a/bitreq/README.md b/bitreq/README.md
@@ -7,11 +7,10 @@ This crate is a fork for the very nice
 rename it because I wanted to totally gut it and provide a crate with
 different goals. Many thanks to the original author.
 
-Simple, minimal-dependency HTTP client. Optional features for
-unicode domains (`punycode`), http proxies (`proxy`), async support
-(`async`, `async-https`), and https with various TLS implementations
-(`https-rustls`, `https-rustls-probe`, and `https` which is an alias
-for `https-rustls`).
+Simple, minimal-dependency HTTP client. Optional features for http
+proxies (`proxy`), async support (`async`, `async-https`), and https
+with various TLS implementations (`https-rustls`, `https-rustls-probe`,
+and `https` which is an alias for `https-rustls`).
 
 Without any optional features, my casual testing indicates about 100
 KB additional executable size for stripped release builds using this

diff --git a/bitreq/src/connection.rs b/bitreq/src/connection.rs
@@ -150,10 +150,8 @@ impl Connection {
     /// Sends the [`Request`](struct.Request.html), consumes this
     /// connection, and returns a [`Response`](struct.Response.html).
     #[cfg(feature = "rustls")]
-    pub(crate) fn send_https(mut self) -> Result<ResponseLazy, Error> {
+    pub(crate) fn send_https(self) -> Result<ResponseLazy, Error> {
         enforce_timeout(self.timeout_at, move || {
-            self.request.url.host = ensure_ascii_host(self.request.url.host)?;
-
             let secured_stream = rustls_stream::create_secured_stream(&self)?;
 
             #[cfg(feature = "log")]
@@ -170,9 +168,8 @@ impl Connection {
 
     /// Sends the [`Request`](struct.Request.html), consumes this
     /// connection, and returns a [`Response`](struct.Response.html).
-    pub(crate) fn send(mut self) -> Result<ResponseLazy, Error> {
+    pub(crate) fn send(self) -> Result<ResponseLazy, Error> {
         enforce_timeout(self.timeout_at, move || {
-            self.request.url.host = ensure_ascii_host(self.request.url.host)?;
             let bytes = self.request.as_bytes();
 
             #[cfg(feature = "log")]
@@ -313,35 +310,6 @@ fn get_redirect(mut connection: Connection, status_code: i32, url: Option<&Strin
     }
 }
 
-fn ensure_ascii_host(host: String) -> Result<String, Error> {
-    if host.is_ascii() {
-        Ok(host)
-    } else {
-        #[cfg(not(feature = "punycode"))]
-        {
-            Err(Error::PunycodeFeatureNotEnabled)
-        }
-
-        #[cfg(feature = "punycode")]
-        {
-            let mut result = String::with_capacity(host.len() * 2);
-            for s in host.split('.') {
-                if s.is_ascii() {
-                    result += s;
-                } else {
-                    match punycode::encode(s) {
-                        Ok(s) => result = result + "xn--" + &s,
-                        Err(_) => return Err(Error::PunycodeConversionFailed),
-                    }
-                }
-                result += ".";
-            }
-            result.truncate(result.len() - 1); // Remove the trailing dot
-            Ok(result)
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 /// Enforce the timeout by running the function in a new thread and
 /// parking the current one with a timeout.
 ///

diff --git a/bitreq/src/error.rs b/bitreq/src/error.rs
@@ -52,18 +52,10 @@ pub enum Error {
     /// The response contained invalid UTF-8 where it should be valid
     /// (eg. headers), so the response cannot interpreted correctly.
     InvalidUtf8InResponse,
-    /// The provided url contained a domain that has non-ASCII
-    /// characters, and could not be converted into punycode. It is
-    /// probably not an actual domain.
-    PunycodeConversionFailed,
     /// Tried to send a secure request (ie. the url started with
     /// `https://`), but the crate's `https` feature was not enabled,
     /// and as such, a connection cannot be made.
     HttpsFeatureNotEnabled,
-    /// The provided url contained a domain that has non-ASCII
-    /// characters, but it could not be converted into punycode
-    /// because the `punycode` feature was not enabled.
-    PunycodeFeatureNotEnabled,
     /// The provided proxy information was not properly formatted. See
     /// [Proxy::new](crate::Proxy::new) for the valid format.
     BadProxy,
@@ -110,8 +102,6 @@ impl fmt::Display for Error {
             TooManyRedirections => write!(f, "too many redirections (over the max)"),
             InvalidUtf8InResponse => write!(f, "response contained invalid utf-8 where valid utf-8 was expected"),
             HttpsFeatureNotEnabled => write!(f, "request url contains https:// but the https feature is not enabled"),
-            PunycodeFeatureNotEnabled => write!(f, "non-ascii urls needs to be converted into punycode, and the feature is missing"),
-            PunycodeConversionFailed => write!(f, "non-ascii url conversion to punycode failed"),
             BadProxy => write!(f, "the provided proxy information is malformed"),
             BadProxyCreds => write!(f, "the provided proxy credentials are malformed"),
             ProxyConnect => write!(f, "could not connect to the proxy server"),

diff --git a/bitreq/src/lib.rs b/bitreq/src/lib.rs
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 //!
 //! ```toml
 //! [dependencies]
-//! bitreq = { version = "2.13.5-alpha", features = ["punycode"] }
+//! bitreq = { version = "2.13.5-alpha", features = ["https"] }
 //! ```
 //!
 //! Below is the list of all available features.
@@ -45,17 +45,6 @@
 //! crate to auto-detect root certificates installed in common
 //! locations.
 //!
-//! ## `punycode`
-//!
-//! This feature enables requests to non-ascii domains: the
-//! [`punycode`](https://crates.io/crates/punycode) crate is used to
-//! convert the non-ascii parts into their punycode representations
-//! before making the request. If you try to make a request to 㯙㯜㯙
-//! 㯟.net or i❤.ws for example, with this feature disabled (as it is
-//! by default), your request will fail with a
-//! [`PunycodeFeatureNotEnabled`](enum.Error.html#variant.PunycodeFeatureNotEnabled)
-//! error.
-//!
 //! ## `async`
 //!
 //! This feature enables asynchronous HTTP requests using tokio. It provides