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added Doug's message as backup for the semi/amp thing

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Robby Findler 2006-10-11 20:28:27 +00:00
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;; that allows more characters to remain decoded ;; that allows more characters to remain decoded
;; -robby ;; -robby
#|
People often seem to wonder why semicolons are the default in this code,
and not ampersands. Here's the best answer we have:
From: Doug Orleans <dougorleans@gmail.com>
To: plt-scheme@list.cs.brown.edu
Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] Problem fetching a URL
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:18:40 -0400
X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under 21.4 (patch 19) "Constant Variable" XEmacs Lucid
Robby Findler writes:
> Do you (or does anyone else) have a reference to an rfc or similar that
> actually says what the syntax for queries is supposed to be?
> rfc3986.txt (the latest url syntax rfc I know of) doesn't seem to say.
The HTML 4.01 spec defines the MIME type application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#form-content-type
See also XForms, which uses a "separator" attribute whose default
value is a semicolon:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/slice11.html#serialize-urlencode
http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/slice3.html#structure-model-submission
--dougorleans@gmail.com
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;;; ;;;
;;; <uri-codec-unit.ss> ---- En/Decode URLs and form-urlencoded data ;;; <uri-codec-unit.ss> ---- En/Decode URLs and form-urlencoded data
;;; Time-stamp: <03/04/25 10:31:31 noel> ;;; Time-stamp: <03/04/25 10:31:31 noel>