- From: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 08:31:06 -0500 (EST)
- To: raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr
- cc: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, Media Fragment <public-media-fragment@w3.org>, Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Raphaël Troncy wrote:
> Dear Philip,
>
>> Perhaps YouTube decodes first and splits last, or perhaps they just use
>> a regexp to find v=XXXXX anywhere. Whatever is the case with YouTube, I
>> assume we want to match as closely as possible how query strings works
>> in e.g. ASP, PHP, JSP and Perl CGI, or there is no benefit in using
>> something that resembles query strings.
>>
>> We can never be 100% compatible, for reasons listed in a note after
>> http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/WD-media-fragments-spec/#decode-a-percent-encoded-string
>
> Thanks, the note is indeed really useful. For all the following statements,
> do you think it is possible to indicate a suitable reference?
> * "&" is the only primary separator for name-value pairs, but some
> server-side languages also treat ";" as a separator.
> * name-value pairs with invalid percent-encoding should be ignored, but
> some server-side languages silently mask such errors.
> * The "+" character should not be treated specially, but some server-side
> languages replace it with a space (" ") character.
+ is in sub-delims, along with & ; and others
(cf rfc3986)
> * Multiple occurrences of the same name must be preserved, but some
> server-side languages only preserve the last occurrence.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Raphaël
>
>
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~~Yves
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