- From: David W. Morris <dwm@xpasc.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 09:53:59 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
On Mon, 12 May 1997, Larry Masinter wrote: > # I do assume that with > # octet-by-octed, you mean after interpretation of % escapes. I think > # it is a good idea to allow these, especially in the tag values. > > No, I don't. I think that the name of features should be > compared exactly. Unescaping of URLs components is > scheme specific. The dilemma is that we currently have no requirment in writing http URLs that %escaping not be used unless required. Confounded by the fact that it is hard to figure out exactly what must be escaped. So it is easy to have two HTTP URLs which identify the same resource not compare on an octet basis. I admit to having noted only a few strange uses of %xx prior to the query part of the URL ... more in the query part. But I would be concerned about specification of a mode of comparison which doesn't fit other usage of the same thing. Dave
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