- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 05:09:24 PDT
- To: dsr@w3.org, fielding@w3.org, frystyk@w3.org, timbl@w3.org
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
When presented with a URL of the form
http://www.host.dom/this%2fis%20a%a1request
(containing escape characters), I believe it is it Best Current
Practice for the request to be transmitted
GET /this%2fis%20a%a1request HTTP/1.0
without un-encoding any of the embedded characters. However, since
URL-encoding of some characters is optional, the HTTP server should be
prepared to un-encode characters it recieves in the request before
interpreting the request.
I would like this to be clarified in section 5.3 ("Request-URI"),
since this is not spelled out in RFC 1738, and it is otherwise
ambiguous.
Received on Thursday, 21 September 1995 05:12:50 UTC