- From: Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:27:01 -0500
- To: uri@w3.org
On Thu November 4 2004 11:41, Larry Masinter wrote:
> > One is the draft statement that URI producers should
> > encode reserved characters (such as the gen-delim '@')
>
> I can't find anything in rfc2396bis section 2.2
> which would lead anyone to believe that
> mailto:a@b.com?to=joe@example.com
> should instead be written
> mailto:a%40b.com?to=joe%40example.com
>
> so your examples are baffling. The '@' does not need to
> be encoded in either place. Both 'segment' and 'query'
> are defined in terms of 'pchar' which explicitly includes
> '@'.
>
> You've stated your belief about this requirement, but
> I can't find it in the draft. Perhaps you could quote
> which words have led you to what must be an erroneous
> conclusion?
reserved = gen-delims / sub-delims
gen-delims = ":" / "/" / "?" / "#" / "[" / "]" / "@"
[...]
URI producing applications should percent-encode data octets that
correspond to characters in the reserved set.
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