Matt Corallo [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2012-01-31 📝 Original message:Odd, here I was thinking I ...
📅 Original date posted:2012-01-31
📝 Original message:Odd, here I was thinking I checked that. Just goes to show how useful
sources other than the rfc itself are... Anyway, Ill change it to a
hyphen.
Matt
On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 22:37 +0000, Gary Rowe wrote:
> Andreas has a good point. See RFC 3986 on URI
> schemes: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#page-12
>
>
> The colon is a reserved general delimiter (similar in use to the / in
> a typical URL, but applies to URNs etc). As suggested, we get
> req:something being changed to one of the unreserved characters that
> do not have to be URL encoded. Again, from the RFC these are
>
>
> * Option A: req_something (underscore)
> * Option B: req-something (hyphen)
> * Option C: req~something (tilde)
> * Option D: req.something (period)
>
>
> Personally, my eye likes Option B, the hyphen.
>
> On 31 January 2012 22:14, Andreas Schildbach <andreas at schildbach.de>
> wrote:
> On 01/31/2012 07:22 PM, Matt Corallo wrote:
>
> > that "It is recommended that additional variables prefixed
> with
> > mustimplement: not be used in a mission-critical way until a
> grace
>
>
> Is the ':' sign actually allowed in URL parameter names
> (unescaped/unencoded)? If not, I'd propose an unrestricted
> char instead,
> maybe '_'.
📝 Original message:Odd, here I was thinking I checked that. Just goes to show how useful
sources other than the rfc itself are... Anyway, Ill change it to a
hyphen.
Matt
On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 22:37 +0000, Gary Rowe wrote:
> Andreas has a good point. See RFC 3986 on URI
> schemes: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#page-12
>
>
> The colon is a reserved general delimiter (similar in use to the / in
> a typical URL, but applies to URNs etc). As suggested, we get
> req:something being changed to one of the unreserved characters that
> do not have to be URL encoded. Again, from the RFC these are
>
>
> * Option A: req_something (underscore)
> * Option B: req-something (hyphen)
> * Option C: req~something (tilde)
> * Option D: req.something (period)
>
>
> Personally, my eye likes Option B, the hyphen.
>
> On 31 January 2012 22:14, Andreas Schildbach <andreas at schildbach.de>
> wrote:
> On 01/31/2012 07:22 PM, Matt Corallo wrote:
>
> > that "It is recommended that additional variables prefixed
> with
> > mustimplement: not be used in a mission-critical way until a
> grace
>
>
> Is the ':' sign actually allowed in URL parameter names
> (unescaped/unencoded)? If not, I'd propose an unrestricted
> char instead,
> maybe '_'.