"Christopher Schultz" <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote in message news:4a68cd5b.2090...@christopherschultz.net... > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Peter, > > On 7/23/2009 3:41 PM, Peter J. Farrell wrote: >> /index.cfm/somePathInfo&withMoreInfo/ > > Shouldn't that be /index.cfm/somePathInfo&%3BwithMoreInfo/ > > ? > > If you try the above URL, does it work? > > java.net.URLEncoder will encode ";" as "%3B". > > See the URL Specification (RFC 1738, > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt), section 2.2 "URL Character > Encoding Issues > ": > > " > Many URL schemes reserve certain characters for a special meaning: > their appearance in the scheme-specific part of the URL has a > designated semantics. If the character corresponding to an octet is > reserved in a scheme, the octet must be encoded. The characters ";", > "/", "?", ":", "@", "=" and "&" are the characters which may be > reserved for special meaning within a scheme. No other characters may > be reserved within a scheme. > " > > The HTTP specification does not specifically say that semi-colons are > reserved, but perhaps the common interpretation of the URL spec is such > that semi-colons should always be encoded. >
Actually it does, just by reference. Section 3.2.1 of RFC 2616 defers to RFC 2396. And section 3.3 of that RFC gives a special meaning to ';'. Tomcat doesn't handle this correctly according the the RFC, but no developer/contributor has had enough of an itch to fix it. But I doubt that fixing it would help the OP much. The fully compliant Tomcat would have to remove anything after a ';' (including the ';') up until the next '/' (if any) for the purpose of mapping the request. It should then re-include them in the various parts of the request URI (except for ";jsessionid"). So it's a lot of work to implement an archane feature that has plenty of work arounds. > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkpozVsACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBnLwCfXFSSIDAnRR0BurRKeS0ub/v9 > 3UYAoJ1gp5oIqnJw2WgHx9LdVzqqAOAI > =rpT0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
