- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 06:35:02 -0500
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>
- Cc: WWW-Tag <www-tag@w3.org>
At 4:03 PM -0800 12/5/02, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >If %7E is used and you replace it with %7e, the character does >not change, regardless of encoding, and therefore the URI spec does >guarantee that the two are equivalent. There is no need to split hairs >about whether it is one character of only part of one character -- the >result is the same because URI %xx rules govern that part of the encoding. Has it been determined then that "character by character" equivalence is calculated after percent escaping is resolved? In the past, the reverse has been true. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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