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[John Campbell]

> I understand that, but I'm asking something like: if you type in •.com into
> your browser, what's getting passed to the server behind the scenes?

The non encoded string (xn--...).  It must be this way because the
HTTP protocol requires the header to be completely US-ASCII.

It is best to think of punycode as just a browser adress bar display hack.

-jc