RE: "How to Compare URIs": %xx for non-reserved characters

• From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
• Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 08:17:56 -0800
• To: <www-tag@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <000201c2d769$4d239270$6ace8642@MASINTER>

Sorry, I sent my last message without thinking....
Of course "." in hex is "%2e" and not "%0a", and

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Feb/0232%2ehtml

works as well as
 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Feb/0232.html

I'm still not certain that all URI processing software
in HTTP servers or clients handles hex-equivalence for
non-reserved characters, but I'll have to look harder
for examples.

Larry

Received on Tuesday, 18 February 2003 11:18:00 UTC