That semicolon is a reserved character in RFC 3986 doesn't mean using URLs with a semicolon should fail. It's still a valid character to use - reserved just means that ';' has a suggested purpose as a delimiter in path segments, and should be URL-escaped if intended as actual content.
For example: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/MatrixURIs.html On Nov 14, 3:52 pm, Wooble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ; is a reserved character in URIs; see RFC 3986. This has been > brought up before; it's been suggested the dev server should be > modified to fail in the same way as the live server. > > On Nov 14, 6:12 am, Moritz Angermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Today I figured out that I could not deploy my app on GAE after it had > > worked > > perfectly on the dev-server. The reason was: I used ';' in my URLs. > > > Below a slightly anonymized output from telnet for some reason I'm > > getting refered to > > /foo/ when I try to access /foo;bar/ > > =============================================================== > > $ telnet app.appspot.com 80 > > Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx... > > Connected to appspot.l.google.com. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > GET /foo;bar/ HTTP/1.1 > > Host: app.appspot.com > > > HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently > > Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 > > Location:http://app.appspot.com/foo/ > > Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:03:44 GMT > > Expires: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:03:43 GMT > > Cache-Control: public, max-age=2592000 > > Server: Google Frontend > > Content-Length: 231 > > > <HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/ > > html;charset=utf-8"> > > <TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY> > > <H1>301 Moved</H1> > > The document has moved > > <A HREF="http://app.appspot.com/foo/";>here</A>. > > </BODY></HTML> > > > Connection closed by foreign host. > > =============================================================== > > > kindest regards, > > Moritz Angermann --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
