Re: Webfolders and URL encoding

Hopefully I'm not out of place with this question. 

Talking about URL encoding and webfolders, how should non-ASCII characters be encoded? It looks like the Microsoft webfolders encodes them based on the Windows code page. There is a setting in IE5 that says "Always send URLs as UTF-8". However WebFolders ignores this setting and never sends the URLs as UTF-8. The problem I have is that I can not reliably determine what a character is when it is encoded using code pages.

Thanks,
Dan

>>> "Tim Ellison/OTT/OTI" <Tim_Ellison@oti.com> 04/28/00 12:44PM >>>

This is true (see also http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc1738.html).

So this format is different to the MIME format called "application/
x-www-form-urlencoded", (ref.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4.1) and in
particular is different to the java.net.URLEncoder behaviour.  This will
likely cause 'interesting' incompatibilities with many Java based clients.

Thanks for pointing this out.
Tim



                                                                                                    
                    Greg Stein                                                                      
                    <gstein@lyra.        To:     Tim Ellison/OTT/OTI <Tim_Ellison@oti.com>          
                    org>                 cc:     w3c-dist-auth@w3.org                               
                                         Subject:     Re: Webfolders and URL encoding               
                    28-04-00                                                                        
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Tim Ellison/OTT/OTI wrote:
> While we are on the subject of webfolders, can anyone provide insight as
to
> why WebFolders does not use '+' to encode the space character when doing
> URL encoding, and fails to recognise it on responses from the server?
>
> WebFolders appear to consistently use %20 for the space char, and don't
> decode '+' when one is returned.

'+' is not a valid encoding for 'space'. Some clients and servers do it
for parts of a URL (particularly within the 'query' section), but it is
not standard.

Refer to RFC 2396 (URLs) and RFC 2616 (HTTP), Section 3.2.
  http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc2396.html 
  http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc2616.html 

Cheers,
-g

--
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/

Received on Friday, 28 April 2000 15:16:56 UTC