Re: URLs

On 2012-06-15 16:48, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 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.

That may be true, but I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.

>>> 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).

It was a mess, but not for that reason.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Friday, 15 June 2012 14:57:16 UTC