Re: IPv6 addresses / uriGetter encoding

Kevin Reid <kpreid-M/[email protected]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:58:17 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.e.general
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On Jun 23, 2010, at 8:32, Kevin Reid wrote:

> The lexer cannot expand %hh, because they escape special characters,
> not just disallowed ones. <http://example.com/a=b&c=d%26e> is
> different from <http://example.com/a=b&c=d&e>.
>
> Looking at the local filesystem case is misleading because filesystems
> do not generally provide ways to

...to escape characters that have special meaning in pathnames.

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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>