- From: Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>
- Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:33:08 +0100
- To: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- CC: Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@cwi.nl>, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, Media Fragment <public-media-fragment@w3.org>, Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>
>> Thanks, the note is indeed really useful. For all the following
>> statements, do you think it is possible to indicate a suitable reference?
>
> Do you mean like a reference in the spec?
I meant a pointer to a document whenever applicable ...
>> * "&" is the only primary separator for name-value pairs, but some
>> server-side languages also treat ";" as a separator.
>
> CGI Perl also accepts ";" as a separator.
... So let's add a pointer to CGI Perl doc.
>> * name-value pairs with invalid percent-encoding should be ignored,
>> but some server-side languages silently mask such errors.
>
> Of the tested, only JSP outright rejected invalid input like our spec
> does. Of ASP, PHP and Perl CGI, some removed the invalid part and some
> simply left them intact, but I can't remember exactly which did which.
Useful warning indeed
>> * The "+" character should not be treated specially, but some
>> server-side languages replace it with a space (" ") character.
>
> All of the tested languages do this, it's just how query fragments are
> used. We could duplicate this behavior, but since we actually have
> syntax that requires using "+" (timezones) it would be quite annoying.
Useful warning indeed
>> * Multiple occurrences of the same name must be preserved, but some
>> server-side languages only preserve the last occurrence.
>
> Here again I can't remember the exact behavior of each language. I'm
> pretty sure PHP and CGI Perl only preserve the last occurence, while JSP
> has a list. I'm not sure about ASP and ASP.NET.
>
> If it essential that the exact results are available I could try digging
> out the scripts from the VirtualBox images I set up for testing.
I think it is fine like that.
Raphaël
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