- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:48:44 +0200
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>, Michael™ Smith <mike@w3.org>, www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Opera is whether a raw "\" in the query component needs to be escaped.
>
> That's an interesting question, but again it's solely about error recovery
> ("\" is invalid in URIs).
Apparently we must transmit "invalid URIs" over the wire then.
>> More than two slashes following an hierarchical scheme is another. As
>> I and others explained before, the RFCs leave a lot up to
>> implementations and that does not match what we need. We could try to
>> write something on top of those RFCs, but so far nobody has been
>> successful at that.
>
> Well, maybe it's worth trying. The other strategies that have been tried
> haven't resulted in a finished spec, either, right?
Ian has tried to patch the RFCs in HTML. That was a mess. I am going
to try to obsolete the RFCs (at least to some extent).
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