Re: draft-montenegro-httpbis-uri-encoding

On 2014-03-24 08:53, "Martin J. Dürst" wrote:
> ...
>> But the browser has no idea how the URI path was constructed, it would
>> be presumptuous for the browser to brave a guess and mislead the
>> intermediaries.
>
> Björn described the situation from a server point of view. From a client
> point of view, the client just encodes the path part of an URI/IRI with
> UTF-8, and the query part with the encoding of the page.

That's a bit misleading. The client doesn't encode the path at all, 
unless it *requires* encoding. That is, if I have "/path%A0" in a href 
attribute, this is what will get on the wire.

> ...

Best regards, Julian

Received on Monday, 24 March 2014 08:02:31 UTC