[whatwg] Web Address and its escape

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:40:22 +0200, NARUSE, Yui <naruse at airemix.jp> wrote:
> First is about 4.10.16.4 URL-encoded form data.
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#application/x-www-form-urlencoded-encoding-algorithm
>
> In this algorithm at 6.2.1,
> "SP, *, -, ., 0 .. 9, A .. Z, _, a .. z" is not escaped.
> But many other specs which use application/x-www-form-urlencoded refers

Which other specifications?


> URI's unreserved. And it in RFC3986 is
>    unreserved    = ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "." / "_" / "~"
> Why ~ is escaped and * is not escaped?

What do browsers do?


> Third is about Web addresses in HTML 5. (this spec is also this ML?)
> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/href/draft

You want public-iri at w3.org or public-html at w3.org for that draft.


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