- From: Roy T.Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:25:25 -0700
- To: "Dave McAlpin" <Dave.McAlpin@epok.net>
- Cc: <uri@w3.org>
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