[Zope3-dev] spelling of namespace signifiers

[Steve Alexander]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>
 > Steve
> Alexander's urllib test aside, there are actually several characters 
> besides '_', '-', and '.' which are not URL-encoded.  urllib.quote() is 
> enormously overzealous when compared to the URL RFC's as well as the 
> actual browser implementations out there. 

Indeed.

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html

    Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and
    reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used
    unencoded within a URL.


> It's also arguably broken for 
> doing path segments anyway since it doesn't quote '/'!  I'll address the 
> issue of available characters in a seperate post, however, once I've 
> concluded my review of the RFC's and done some browser tests.  So far, I 
> think there is a very strong possibility that there are *many* "nice", 
> non-ugly characters we can use.

Another one for your collection:

   container/(view)index.html  was mentioned on the IRC channel today.



> What I intend to do is create a small "test suite" of directories and 
> pages with weird characters in their URLs, and with relative and 
> absolute links in and among the pages.  I'll then post the URLs here for 
> people to test against "non-mainstream" browsers, and see what ends up 
> being quoted.  I'll include URLs that will do server-side redirects and 
> client-side meta-refreshes, and maybe even a JavaScript location-setting 
> or two.

Great.


> How does that sound?  Oh, and by the way, do we need these to work for 
> FTP or any other URL schemes besides HTTP?  Please let me know so I can 
> include them in the test suite if possible.  Thanks!

They will need to work for other schemes.

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Steve Alexander