Re: Square brackets in query component

On Tuesday, June 15, 2004, at 09:50  AM, Dave McAlpin wrote:

> The query production in 2396bis allows slash (“/”), question mark 
> (“?”), colon (“:”) and thecommercial at-sign ("@") in order to improve 
> readability of URIs that appear in a query. However, square brackets 
> (“[“ and “]”) are disallowed, which forces percent encoding in URIs 
> with IPv6 addresses. Can square brackets be safely added to the query 
> production?

Not without thorough testing, which I am not prepared to do at this
date.  Use of IP addresses (of any form) within a URI is not desirable
for mainstream practice, so there isn't much demand for such changes.

....Roy

Received on Thursday, 15 July 2004 02:25:04 UTC