On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:08:18 -0700 (PDT), Eric Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> RFC 2396 has been superseded by RFC 3986, although that does not > affect this case. RFC 2396 is what is quoted in RFC 2616, so that's why I was referring to it. > http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/4_URI_Recommentations.html > > "Within the query string, the plus sign is reserved as shorthand > notation for a space. Therefore, real plus signs must be encoded. That's what Drakma does. > For the record, neither IE nor Firefox encodes plus signs when they > are entered as part of the query. They encode them if they are GET parameters, like Drakma. Open the attached HTML page in IE or Firefox and enter "a+b", then press the Return key. > It seems to me that http-request should make encoding of the > parameters optional, since a client program may need to deal with > encoded as well as unencoded strings. Otherwise, a caller of > http-request that already has encoded parameters must explicitly > decode them before calling. No, you are free to build the URL for Drakma yourself. Edi.
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