"William A. Rowe, Jr." wrote: > > 3.2.3 URI Comparison ... > > *** Characters other than those in the "reserved" and "unsafe" sets (see RFC 2396 >[42]) are equivalent to their ""%" HEX HEX" encoding. For example, the following >three URIs are equivalent: > http://abc.com:80/~smith/home.html > http://ABC.com/%7Esmith/home.html > http://ABC.com:/%7esmith/home.html > *** > > "Other than those"??? That means, members of reserved and unsafe ARE > NOT THE SAME VALUE as an %nn of the same characters.
non sequitur, otherbill. it says nothing about whether reserved characters are or not. it just says unreserved ones *are*. an origin server is the authority on how uris within its purview are interpreted. if an apache installation wants to regard '%2f' and '/' as equivalent, it may. in fact, we do -- since we're currently blocking '%2f' which we will otherwise treat as '/'. -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!"
