[Nh-pm] Oddity with URI::Escape
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Mon Jan 31 20:05:39 PST 2005
On Jan 31, 2005, at 16:09, Ray Cote wrote:
> URI::Escape::uri_escape default has changed. Reserved characters are
> now escaped when no second argument is provided.
>
> Guess I should still go back through the old code and figure out why
> _some_ of the characters were escaped since the above would imply
> nothing should have been escaped.
Being that & and + were causing you trouble: & is used for separating
GET variables (?foo=bar&fred=barney) and + is munged by some webservers
to space (%20) - frequently the cause of much consternation with my
plus-expanded e-mail addresses (bill+whatevermailbox at bfccomputing.com).
So maybe that's why they were reserved. ?, / and : might also have
been on the list?
Just a guess...
-Bill
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