On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:41 PM, David Green<david.gr...@telus.net> wrote: > Well, we can encode a URI any way we like -- I was thinking of anything up > to the next whitespace or semicolon, and internal semicolons, etc. being > %-encoded.
Semicolons are reserved characters in URIs: inappropriately percentage encoding semicolons would be in direct violation of rfc3986. Using them as delimiter would break many perfectly valid URIs. That's absolutely a no-go IMNSHO. Breaking up at whitespace should work, see appendix C of RFC 3986 for recommendations on that. > Maybe it's more practical to permit only URIs with little to no punctuation > to be unquoted, and quote anything else? Not that quoting is such a great > hardship anyway.... Maybe, but if I can't use it half of the time it may as well be omitted. Quoting should be relatively easy, because URIs have a wide range of characters that can't be in them anyway. Leon
