Ok, it seems that you're right about %2f and / being different. The slash is one of a few reserved characters defined in section 2.2 of RFC2396.
Other characters can safely be unencoded in the URL. For example, http://test.com/%7efoo/ is 100% equivalent to http://test.com/~foo/. Canonicalization algorithms are described in section 2.4.2. It seems that adherence to these rules are rare through. For the sake of simplicity across platforms and frameworks, irrespective of how well they follow 2.4.2, I think a JSON payload is the safest approach. -- Tatham -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tatham Oddie Sent: Tuesday, 20 September 2011 11:04 AM To: Neo4j user discussions Subject: Re: [Neo4j] Forward slashes in index values Great! :) Re: the URLs being the same, check out http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/about/ vs http://www.google.com.au/intl/en%2fabout/ Both load just fine. I'll go trudging through the URI spec to work out if this is correct behaviour or not later. -- Tatham -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Webber Sent: Monday, 19 September 2011 9:32 PM To: Neo4j user discussions Subject: Re: [Neo4j] Forward slashes in index values Hi Tatham, I don't necessarily agree with %2f and / being the same, but I do agree that POSTing everything in the URI is a bit quirky. Peter's opened up a new issue on this: https://github.com/neo4j/community/issues/25 And I get to hack on it. So it looks like the REST index API will be changing in our 1.5 release to have a JSON payload in the entity body. That should prevent any URI ambiguity and be more sensible too. Jim _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
