- From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 08:41:50 -0800
- To: "'Bruce Lilly'" <blilly@erols.com>
- Cc: "'uri'" <uri@w3.org>
> One is the draft statement that URI producers should > encode reserved characters (such as the gen-delim '@') I can't find anything in rfc2396bis section 2.2 which would lead anyone to believe that mailto:a@b.com?to=joe@example.com should instead be written mailto:a%40b.com?to=joe%40example.com so your examples are baffling. The '@' does not need to be encoded in either place. Both 'segment' and 'query' are defined in terms of 'pchar' which explicitly includes '@'. You've stated your belief about this requirement, but I can't find it in the draft. Perhaps you could quote which words have led you to what must be an erroneous conclusion? > The subject draft, however, does not list reserved > characters for the individual URI components, and > reserves '@' generally, but # These characters are called # "reserved" because they may (or may not) be defined as delimiters by # the generic syntax, by each scheme-specific syntax, or by the # implementation-specific syntax of a URI's dereferencing algorithm. Larry
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