Re: A new RFC for Web Addresses/Hypertext References: Background wrt LEIRIs

2009/5/1 "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>:
> [...]
>
>> [WEBADDR] had in some ways a similar origin to [LEIRI], starting out
>>   as a section of the HTML5 spec which addressed the process by which
>>   existing browsers process strings to produce URIs which can be
>>   dereferenced.
>
> Yes indeed. It changes a space to %20, the same as for LEIRIs.
>
>>   It differs from [LEIRI] in the exact set of
>>   characters which it escapes,
>
> Has anybody done an analysis?
>
> It seems to provide more detail about '[' and ']', escaping them depending
> on context. It could be that that's also necessary for LEIRIs.
>
> But "any occurrences of percent-encoding in the Web address will be
> double-encoded at this step." looks extremely scary.

It did such an analysis. You find it at
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2009Apr/0064.html>
(originally sent to the WHATWG mailing list, forwarded by Ian Hickson
to www-archive@w3.org)

Giovanni

Received on Friday, 1 May 2009 09:37:56 UTC