Re: PATH_INFO spec (with regard to ";")

[James Tucker <jftucker@gmail.com>]

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On 11 Dec 2009, at 00:19, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:

> El Viernes, 11 de Diciembre de 2009, James Tucker escribió:
>>> Of course, in the grand scheme of things, hardly anybody uses ";" in
>>> paths.  Yay for rare corner cases making our lives difficult.
>> 
>> Amen, because I feel like I want to say "be configurable", given all of the
>> above.
> 
> I'm coding a XCAP server using Rack. XCAP is basically XPath over HTTP in 
> which there are HTTP URI's like the following:
> 
> /auid/global/mydoc.xml/~~/ruleset/rule%5b@id=%22sip:dom.org;p=abc%22%5d
> 
> After reading RFC for URI and HTTP I think that the ";" is valid into the 
> above URI. I also asked in a XCAP maillist and received same conclusion.
> 
> Please tell me if you consider the ";" in the above URI wrong.

"Wrong" is hard to define with archaic protocol specifications that do not match "common" usage patterns, which is why I suggested it should be configurable. I would probably suggest to you that you make your client configurable to escape it's semi-colon characters in the uri that are not part of query syntax.

> 
> Regards.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>


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