Re: "How to Compare URIs": %xx for non-reserved characters

At 13:30 03/02/19 +0100, Chris Lilley wrote:

>On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, 5:17:56 PM, Larry wrote:
>
>LM> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Feb/0232%2ehtml
>
>LM> works as well as
>
>LM> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Feb/0232.html
>
>Yes. This gave the same as the unescaped version, for that url, in
>HTML browsers that I tried (MSIE 6, Opera 7, Mozilla 1.1, Amaya 7.2a)
>and in XML Spy 5.3.

This is helpful, but it may not be what we are looking for.
I got the same (identical) result by using
    > telnet lists.w3.org 80

So the equivalence is maintained on the server side
(or maybe even on both sides?).

Regards,   Martin.