- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 23:06:43 PDT
- To: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
It's a common difficulty with URL processing, to the point where we wrote a special section in the revised URL draft on "when to escape and when not to escape". But the short answer is that you cannot 'unescape' a URL except when you are parsing it into its component parts. Thus, URL equivalence using %XX = <character represented by that byte> is unacceptable. Look at latest draft-fielding-url-syntax-* in the internet drafts directory. Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
Received on Thursday, 15 May 1997 00:33:38 UTC