Re: draft-montenegro-httpbis-uri-encoding

On 2014-03-21 14:47, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> ...
> I'll give you a big secret: nobody writes in percent-escaped manually if
> he can avoid it, just like nobody uses html entities.
>
> The bulk of percent-escaped urls has been produced by automatons
> converting human-written plain text that used the document main encoding,
> so yes I do expect both encodings to match if the automaton was coded
> properly.
> ...

That assumes that the "automaton" that did the URI-escaping actually 
knew the document encoding, and that the document the URI appears in 
never gets re-encoded.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Friday, 21 March 2014 13:55:01 UTC