On 11/15/11 11:24 PM, Worley, Dale R (Dale) wrote:
>> From: Brett Tate [[email protected]]
>>
>> Concerning the quoted-string and quoted-pair BNF, it allows useless
>> escaping of characters within the quoted string. For instance,
>> "value" can uselessly be escaped as "\v\a\l\u\e". Are they
>> equivalent?
>
> The general practice seems to be to consider quoted non-special
> characters to be equivalent to the plain characters. E.g., in section
> 19.1.4:
>
> o Characters other than those in the "reserved" set (see RFC 2396
> [5]) are equivalent to their ""%" HEX HEX" encoding.
>
> We've been assuming that the same holds true for quoted-string.
I would agree. This of course means that one must process strings for
escapes before comparing them.
Thanks,
Paul
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