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000820_timbl@www3.cern.ch _Tue Apr 6 14:14:26 1993.msg
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From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
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To: "Tony Johnson (415) 926 2278" <TONYJ@scs.slac.stanford.edu>
Subject: Escaped characters in search strings in HTTP
Cc: dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Reply-To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch
Tony, Dave, folks in general:
Characters otherwise not allowed in a URL SHALL be escaped using
the %nn notation, and ARE handled this way in the 2.0 WWW library
server and client.
This is is not just a suggestion! :-)
Tim
(Tony wrote:
> I have previously suggested that we use the %nn (eg %32) syntax for
special
> characters in search strings. (See my message to www-talk,
25-Feb-1993, subj:
> "Handling + in document searches") In reposonse to this note TimBL
> suggested
^^^^^^^^^
> this would be implemented in the next version of the WWWLibrary. I
would
> certainly like to see this (or something giving equivalent
functionality)
> documented in the HTTP documentation.
)