- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:45:50 +1100
- To: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- Cc: Media Fragment <public-media-fragment@w3.org>, Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> wrote: > 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.) Yeah, totally works and is displayed in exactly that way in the browser bar in Firefox 3.7a. Cheers, Silvia.
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