Re: draft-montenegro-httpbis-uri-encoding

* Zhong Yu wrote:
>1. It's improbable that the origin server uses separate encoding
>schemes for path and query. If the encoding scheme for the query part
>is known, it can be assumed for the path part too.

This is actually a common situation. One reason is that the server
software handles the path, and some independent script handles the
query, and you might well have a server system that uses UTF-8 in
paths, but a legacy script expects ISO-8859-1 query strings. If it
is necessary and possible to communicate the encoding, if any, then
these two components need separate labels for maximum compatibility.
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