Ian Hickson wrote:
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I actually can't find where it is defined that the + in an HTTP URI
represents a space. (I can find where it says that a space is to be
converted into a +, but not the other way around.)
Where does it say that? Surely not RFC 2616? RFC 3986?
My understanding, though, is that the convention that + represents a space
is not part of the URI syntax, but part of the syntax of the format used
to encode the data into the URI, which for HTTP URIs is generally
application/x-www-form-urlencoded. But nothing stops this format from
Yes: <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4.1>
being used elsewhere, e.g. in the body of an e-mail or a POST submission.
I could be used, but I'm not sure it should. What's the advantage over
representing SP as %20?
> ...
BR, Julian
