Hi all, In fact, this convention comes from the way HTML forms post data. You can get the specification here: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4.1
Now, that doesn't prevent other ways to encoding query parameters, but there is no built-in support for this (yet). Another encoding that would be useful is the "multipart/form-data", there is already a RFE for this: http://restlet.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=71 Best regards, Jerome > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Stian Soiland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : lundi 25 juin 2007 12:03 > À : [email protected] > Objet : Re: Parameter delimiters within URI query strings > > > On 24 Jun 2007, at 07:31, Martin Pike wrote: > > > RFC 3986 defines '&' and '+' in the same production, as reserved/ > > sub-delimiters. I cannot find any reference to what > > should be used as a parameter delimiter, although, of course, I > > recognise that '&' is the most frequently used. > > I've seen someone (I think it was some IBM product) using ? as the > delimiter, I can understand the beauty of it, each new parameter is > just to add ?whatever to the URI, but is this sane? > > Example with a mix of boolean options and key-values: > > http://example.com/document?fish=1337?soup?version > > -- > Stian Soiland, myGrid team > School of Computer Science > The University of Manchester > http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~ssoiland/ >
