Re: Draft 2 of "How to Compare URIs"

* Tim Bray wrote:
>[http://www.textuality.com/tag/uri-comp-2.html]

>By the way, I'm really looking for input on what I'll call the %61 
>issue;

I wrote some sample programs to compare

  http://www.example.org/%61 with
  http://www.example.org/a

with the following facilities and results:

Windows Shell 5.0 (Win98, Win2000, Internet Explorer 5.0 and later)
  -> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2002Dec/0095.html
  -> UrlCompare(...)
       -> equal

Libwww-perl, URI.pm 1.22
  -> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2002Dec/0096.html
  -> URI::eq(...)
       -> equal

Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0
  -> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2002Dec/0094.html
  -> System.Uri.equals(...)
       -> equal

Java Development Kit 1.4.0
  -> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2002Dec/0097.html
  -> java.net.URL.equals(...)
       -> not equal