HTTP 1.0&1.1 URL safe characters conflict with HTML?

• From: David W. Morris <dwm@shell.portal.com>
• Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 11:43:37 -0800 (PST)
• To: http working group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
• Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.90.960208113949.16026E-100000@jobe.shell.portal.com>

Reviewing not quite current HTTP 1.0 and 1.1 drafts I noticed that the 
plus sign (+) character is included as a safe character.

This would seem to be in conflict with current practice and the HTML
RFC where the + is part of the url encoding scheme to represent blanks.

Dave Morris

Received on Thursday, 8 February 1996 11:47:44 UTC