Re: Clarifying the URL Standard goals

On 2012-11-08 12:52, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> ...
>> What do you mean by "a query with a lone "%" can be the output of the
>> parser"? Does that mean that it is sent as such to the server? What do
>> servers do with it? Would it hurt to escape it to %25? Or is that done in a
>> later stage?
>
> Servers appear to not pay much attention to it. http://www.w3.org/?%
> is an example. Escaping it to %25 seems dangerous compatibility wise.
 > ...

That's something we should test (and potentially eliminate) instead of 
making it mandatory.

 > ...

Best regards, Julian