On 20.01.2012 15:27, Garret Wilson wrote: > On 1/20/2012 2:59 AM, Philip Martin wrote: >> 1.7 has stricter rules for canonical URLs (from RFC 3986) than 1.6: > ... >> ... >> - no lowercase % encoding: >> >> "http://host/repo/%C3%A5"; not "http://host/repo/%c3%a5"; > ... >> All the above URLs can be used with a 1.7 client because the client >> converts them to canonical form, but a 1.6 client will not do the >> conversion and will pass the non-canonical form to the server. A 1.7 >> server will sometimes reject such URLs: > > If I could throw my opinion in here even though I'm new... > canonicalization is a good thing in line with RFC 3986, which says, > "For consistency, URI producers and normalizers should use uppercase > hexadecimal digits for all percent-encodings."
"Normalizers should use" does not imply "consumers should reject anything else". In other words, theh 1.7 server is just a bit too aggressive in its interpretation of the RFC. I consider this incompatibility to be a bug. -- Brane
