Re: Percent encoding

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:19:47 +0800, Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl> wrote:

> Does anyone know what the canonical reference is for percent-decoding?  
> Because we seem to assume it can be done late, but I just typed  
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch%3fv=FwJduPtCvSM%26feature=rec-r2-2r-1-HM>  
> into my browser URL field, and the ? and & were decoded...

You need to use a packet sniffing tool like wireshark to see what is  
actually sent over the network. Browsers change the ways URLs are  
displayed to make them look nicer. Servers can of course do whatever  
strange things they want with the URL, but does the above link actually  
work? (I'm in China, where YouTube does not exist.)

-- 
Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software

Received on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 12:57:20 UTC