The plus=space encoding is from the specification of the
application/x-www-form-urlencoded media type.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_8.html#SEC8.2.1
Bryan.
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Bryan Thale
Motorola Labs, Networking and Infrastructure Research
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Gerald Richter wrote:
> >
> > At 8:00 PM -0700 6/27/2000, Chris Thorman wrote:
> > >In the URI escaping spec, '+' is the special (optional) escape code
> > >for space. But since %XX works for any character, %20 also works
> > >for space.
> >
> > I can't find anything like that in
> > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt - do you have any references?
>
> This code is very old (about 3 years) so I don't have in mind from where
> exactly I get the information, but the '+' as escape for space is commonly
> used. A quick test with IE 5.01 shows that entering "a b c" in a formfield
> is send as a+b+c.
>
> Anyway as far as I see it won't hurt to change + to %20 on the ouput side,
> so, if nobody speaks against it, I include your patch in the next release
>
> Gerald
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