xml-dev - Re: URLs

[Paul Prescod <papresco@technologist.com>]

John Cowan wrote:
> 
> The trouble is that "http://whoever.net/foo?bar" doesn't mean the
> same thing as "http://whoever.net/foo%3Fbar"; the latter induces the
> server to look for a file named "foo?bar", whereas the former queries
> the resource "foo" with the request "bar".

That's true, I should have thought of that. Of course URLs are a
string-based language, and the language has to have reserved characters.
But what of the characters that are "unsafe because gateways and other
transport agents are known to sometimes modify such characters". I was
thinking more about those. It seems that they should be handled
transparently, as MIME encoding is in a modern mail program. Of course ~
is usually bandied about despite its "unsafeness", but I would be
surprised if browsers are smart enough to encode it during transmission
for "safety."

 Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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