- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 10:11:42 -0700
- To: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Cc: "'Roy T. Fielding'" <fielding@apache.org>, uri@w3.org
Larry Masinter wrote:
> I think this is OK, although I'm uneasy about "does not".
> Is it "will not", "should not", "must not"? Are we
> establishing a conformance requirement, describing current
> deployed software? In no cases does escaping unreserved
> characters change the resource identified in all of the
> deployed software in the world?
In my experience pretty well all serious software tends do do the right
thing. Having said that...
> I offer the following rewrite:
>
> Escaping unreserved characters in a URI should not change
> what resource is identified. However, escaping characters
> may change the result of some URI comparisons (section 6),
> potentially leading to incorrect or inefficient behavior.
> Therefore, unreserved characters should not be escaped
> unnecessarily.
I like this.
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Cheers, Tim Bray
(ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
Received on Sunday, 8 June 2003 13:11:47 UTC