- From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 10:24:47 -0800
- To: "'uri'" <uri@w3.org>
Larry: > 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 > Bruce: > reserved = gen-delims / sub-delims > gen-delims = ":" / "/" / "?" / "#" / "[" / "]" / "@" > > [...] > > URI producing applications should percent-encode data octets that > correspond to characters in the reserved set. You've taken this out of context. The entire preceding paragraphs describe how reserved characters in gen-delims are used as delimiters (unencoded). To be pedantically accurate, I could imagine 'should percent-encode' => 'should otherwise percent-encode' but I'm not convinced it is necessary, since a reading that ALL reserved characters should be encoded no matter what would lead you to encode every delimiter everywhere -- which would be nonsensical. Larry
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