Re: how browsers transform URLs

On Dec 26, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

>
> On 25/12/2009, at 11:22 AM, Erik van der Poel wrote:
>>
>> As you can see, for <img> tags with a ?query part, the  
>> implementations
>> escape Space as %20, but for HTML forms they escape Space as +.
>>
>> Is this what you were asking about?
>
> Yes, thanks!

The + escaping is part of the form submission process, not part of URL  
processing per se. Logically (and in at least some implementations) it  
happens before the URL processing machinery even gets to look at the  
URL.

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Sunday, 27 December 2009 01:53:47 UTC