- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 14:50:07 -0800
- To: "David W. Morris" <dwm@shell.portal.com>
- Cc: http working group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.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.
It is safe, and "+" does not represent blanks. The "+" character is
used to separate keywords in a URL generated by an ISINDEX query,
but those separators are not equivalent to blanks. Since the query part
is generated, there is no need for "+" to be reserved in the URL syntax,
which is why it is not reserved in RFC 1738.
...Roy T. Fielding
Department of Information & Computer Science (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425 fax:+1(714)824-4056
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/
Received on Friday, 9 February 1996 15:38:15 UTC