Re: Unwrapping urn:public:...

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

dcpleland@ftnetwork.com wrote:


>> See the HTML 4.01 Recommendation at
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4 , bullet
>> point 1:
> 
> This applies to the filling in of HTML forms, not to URLs

When you fill in a form whose method is GET, an URL is generated whose
query part contains plus signs for spaces.  This can readily be verified,
and has been documented in a variety of places.
 
> I have not seen a cogent statement of reason for use of '+' as the
> escapement of whitespace in URL.

Readability.  Analogy with existing practice.  Analogy with existing
recommendations/RFCs.

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