[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In the real world, RFC compliance must be tempered with useragent support.
> RFC 1738 specifically says that + is to be treated as an unreserved boring
> unspecial alphanumeric, but 99% of useragents will treat it as an
> alternative for %20 in a querystring (that is, as an encoding for " ").

You're of course right about the necessity of mimicking the 
behavior of common user agents, regardless of what RFCs say.
But I'm a little confused about how user agents would be 
involved in interpreting a query string, which seems to be an 
exclusively server-side activity.  They do construct query 
strings, when forms are submitted by the "GET" method.  Are you 
saying some user agents use "+" for spaces in that case?

-- 
Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Washington, DC

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