- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:49:00 +0900
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: "NARUSE, Yui" <naruse@airemix.jp>, public-iri@w3.org
Hello Yui, Julian, On 2009/09/10 2:47, Julian Reschke wrote: > NARUSE, Yui wrote: >> Hi, >> I originally posted on whatwg and am introduced here. >> http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-September/022777.html >> >> This is about Web addresses in HTML 5. >> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/href/draft >> >> In 2 Parsing Web addresses at 2. Percent-encode all non-URI characters in w, >> percent-encoding many characters includeing U+0025 percent sign. >> But by this spec, if a Web address w is already escaped URL, >> this process double-escape those characters. >> >> For example, w is http://www.example.org/D%C3%BCrst, >> on step 2, w comes to be http://www.example.org/D%25C3%25BCrst. >> And on step 5, w is broken. >> >> So it shouldn't escape percent sign, >> and if you want to give percent sign, it must be already escaped. >> ... > > That spec is already obsolete; work is now going on in > <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-duerst-iri-bis-06>. Yes, and I think we will work more based on http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-html5-20090423/infrastructure.html#urls than on http://www.w3.org/html/wg/href/draft. > (I think I asked the same question some time ago, and it turned out > there's another un-escaping step undoing this; however I agree that this > is totally confusing and needs to be changed or at least explained much > better) I agree that it's confusing, and I hope we can avoid it. Regards, Martin. -- #-# Martin J. Dürst, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp
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