On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.resc...@gmx.de> wrote: >> Opera is whether a raw "\" in the query component needs to be escaped. > > That's an interesting question, but again it's solely about error recovery > ("\" is invalid in URIs).
Apparently we must transmit "invalid URIs" over the wire then. >> More than two slashes following an hierarchical scheme is another. As >> I and others explained before, the RFCs leave a lot up to >> implementations and that does not match what we need. We could try to >> write something on top of those RFCs, but so far nobody has been >> successful at that. > > Well, maybe it's worth trying. The other strategies that have been tried > haven't resulted in a finished spec, either, right? Ian has tried to patch the RFCs in HTML. That was a mess. I am going to try to obsolete the RFCs (at least to some extent). -- Anne — Opera Software http://annevankesteren.nl/ http://www.opera.com/