Re: Unwrapping urn:public:...

[dcpleland@ftnetwork.com]

Norm Walsh wrote:

>But I don't see any reference to this form of escaping in either RFC
>1945 (HTTP/1.0) or RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1) or any of the URL RFCs.

Neither do I, and I've never seen it used.  Why start with a new escapement for whitespace now?

Regards,
David Leland

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ndw@nwalsh.com wrote on 5/9/01 1:17:24 PM
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/ dcpleland@ftnetwork.com was heard to say:
| Tony Coates wrote:
| 
| >We aren't reinventing anything.  I certainly saw "+" in URLs long before I saw
| >"%20".  It just happens that Netscape people tend to use the "+" form and IE
| >users tend to use "%20" (or just a plain space).  
| 
| Having never seen '+' as a white space in a url, used in my decade
| of markup experience, I cannot vouch for your experience.  And
| having used Netscape for all of that time, I am bewildered by your
| assertin that netscape people used it.

Tony is absolutely right about using '+' to represent a space, at
least in HTTP URLs, although I wasn't thinking about that.

What's interesting is that there appears to be no spec that explicitly
defines this behavior. The HTML 3.2 Recommendation says (in the discussion
of the ISINDEX tag):

  Note that space characters are mapped to "+" characters and that
  normal URL character escaping mechanisms apply. For further details
  see the HTTP specification.

But I don't see any reference to this form of escaping in either RFC
1945 (HTTP/1.0) or RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1) or any of the URL RFCs.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM   | DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And
XML Standards Engineer | we dance to its music.--Richard Dawkins
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