%xx escapes disallowed in host component

• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
• Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 05:42:17 +0100
• To: tbray@textuality.com
• Cc: www-archive@w3.org
• Message-ID: <3e85f479.302519720@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

Hi Tim,

In <http://www.textuality.com/tag/uri-comp-4.html>:

[...]
Consider two URIs:

  * http://a/b 
  * http://a%2Fb 

Software applying RFC2396's rules would not find these equivalent, since
the %2F is being used explicitly to escape the special semantics in URIs
of the / character.
[...]

This example is invalid. The `host` component must not contain %xx
escapes, see section 3.2.2. of RFC 2396.

regards.

Received on Friday, 21 February 2003 23:41:47 UTC