On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:08:18 -0700 (PDT), Eric Benson eric_a_benson@yahoo.com wrote:
RFC 2396 has been superseded by RFC 3986, although that does not affect this case.
RFC 2396 is what is quoted in RFC 2616, so that's why I was referring to it.
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/4_URI_Recommentations.html
"Within the query string, the plus sign is reserved as shorthand notation for a space. Therefore, real plus signs must be encoded.
That's what Drakma does.
For the record, neither IE nor Firefox encodes plus signs when they are entered as part of the query.
They encode them if they are GET parameters, like Drakma. Open the attached HTML page in IE or Firefox and enter "a+b", then press the Return key.
It seems to me that http-request should make encoding of the parameters optional, since a client program may need to deal with encoded as well as unencoded strings. Otherwise, a caller of http-request that already has encoded parameters must explicitly decode them before calling.
No, you are free to build the URL for Drakma yourself.
Edi.