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Re: FW: single percent

From: Erik van der Poel <erikv@google.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:55:44 -0700
Message-ID: <c07a32650909251155h59a8114fp20f1633453fb94d0@mail.gmail.com>
To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Cc: PUBLIC-IRI@w3.org
>>> I seem to remember something to the effect that some implementations
>>> parsed URIs from the back to chop off the fragment part.
>>
>>Ugh. Just say No to such implementations. Always parse forward.
>
> People attempting to chop off the fragment identifier to pass only
> the address along are rather unlikely to follow your advice.

Do you know of implementations that parse backwards from the end to
find the beginning of the fragment part?

Erik
Received on Friday, 25 September 2009 18:56:30 GMT

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