[Nh-pm] Oddity with URI::Escape

[Bill McGonigle]

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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