RE: proposed text on IRIEverywhere-27

Hello Martin,


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Duerst [mailto:duerst@w3.org]
> Sent: 04 February 2003 23:20
> To: Williams, Stuart
> Cc: Michel Suignard; www-international@w3.org; www-tag@w3.org
> Subject: RE: proposed text on IRIEverywhere-27
> 
> 
> Hello Stuart,
> 
> At 12:19 03/02/04 +0000, Williams, Stuart wrote:
> >Hi Martin,
> >
> >In the 2nd comparision, if the fully escaped sequences are for comparison
> >only, I'm not sure why you protected these 14 characters from being %
> >escaped. Is there a reason why excluding them from the expansion is
> >neccessary?
> 
> Yes, there is a very clear reason. These characters are reserved.
> RFC 2396, in "2.2. Reserved Characters", lists the following as
> reserved:
> 
>      reserved    = ";" | "/" | "?" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" | "+" |
>                    "$" | ","
> 
> To this, we have to add [ and ] for ipv6 literals, and # and
> % which are in effect reserved, but treated differently in the
> syntax. Escaping them would leave to strange results,
>      http://www.example.org/path/file
> is definitely NOT the same as
>      http://www.example.org/path%2Ffile .

Ok... I've got it... prevents the 'reserved' characters and friends matching
their escaped forms.

Thanks...

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> 
> Regards,    Martin.
> 

Stuart

Received on Thursday, 6 February 2003 00:25:46 UTC