Escaped characters in search strings in HTTP

Tim Berners-Lee ([email protected])
Tue, 6 Apr 93 14:31:34 +0100


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.
)