Escaped characters in search strings in HTTP

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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 93 14:31:34 +0100
From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
Message-id: <9304061331.AA01753@www3.cern.ch>
To: "Tony Johnson (415) 926 2278" <TONYJ@scs.slac.stanford.edu>
Subject: Escaped characters in search strings in HTTP
Cc: dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Reply-To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch

Tony, Dave, folks in general:

Characters otherwise not allowed in a URL SHALL be escaped using
the %nn notation, and ARE handled this way in the 2.0 WWW library
server and client.

This is is not just a suggestion! :-)

	Tim

(Tony wrote:
 

> I have previously suggested that we use the %nn (eg %32) syntax for  
special 

> characters in search strings. (See my message to www-talk,  
25-Feb-1993, subj: 

> "Handling + in document searches") In reposonse to this note TimBL  
> suggested
  ^^^^^^^^^
> this would be implemented in the next version of the WWWLibrary. I  
would 

> certainly like to see this (or something giving equivalent  
functionality) 

> documented in the HTTP documentation.
)