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Re: [Jersey] Slashes in query string

From: Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:06:04 +0200

On Jul 15, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Martin Probst wrote:

>>> I have read a bit more, and { and } are always disallowed in any of
>>> the RFCs.
>>
>> Where does it state that in RFC 3986? i looked but could find
>> anything
>> related to the reservation (or unwise use) of such characters.
>
> If you go through the grammar, it does not explicitly allow '{' or
> '}'. So they are disallowed.

Ah yes.


> In the earlier spec there was a section
> about these excluded ASCII characters and why they shouldn't be used,
> but apparently that one didn't make it into the next version. I assume
> one of the main reasons why URI templates chose { and } was that they
> are disallowed in regular URIs.
>

Correct.


>> Would you mind logging an issue?
>
>> It should. I guess the latter is using URI processing of the HTML
>> libraries.
>> Might be worth logging a bug against Firefox?
>
> I'll see. It would be really nice if there was a universal bug tracker
> for all software - or if they'd use open ID. By now, I have accounts
> in approximately 20 bug trackers ;-)
>

A standard RESTfull API for bug tracking systems + single sign on
should do it :-)

Paul.

>> :-) i call it the wild wild web.
>
> :-)
>
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