- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 15:24:35 -0400
- To: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Cc: html-wg@oclc.org, www-lib@w3.org
> > Looking at the just- > >released-to-the-public W3C WWWLibrary, HTEscape.c appears to let > >"-._" pass unencoded, but not the "safe" `$'; the "extra" `*' is > >O.K., yet none of its peers are. > > This is a defect in WWWLibrary. I believe henrik already knows > about this. I'll copy www-lib@w3.org on this just in case. I do - I use half of my time updating the code according to I don't know how many specificatins :-( The escape/unescape is one of the places where there still are problems. > >I think we're all in agreement that alphanumerics don't need to > >be encoded. Nowhere else in draft-ietf-html-spec-05.txt is > >there any mention of what constitute "reserved characters," but > >it seems that [URL]'s definition isn't applicable, > > Why not? I believe [URL]'s definition is applicable. Hmmm... > it may be updated by [RELURL]. Roy? > > > yet the > >reference implementation doesn't limit itself to strict > >alphanumerics either. It will be fixed in the next release -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, <frystyk@w3.org> World-Wide Web Consortium, MIT/LCS NE43-356 545 Technology Square, Cambridge MA 02139, USA
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