From: "卜部昌平" <s-urabe@...>
Date: 2005-05-03T17:21:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ruby-Bugs-1859 ] URI.escape/unescape does the wrong thing with spaces


On 03 May 2005, at 06:57, noreply@rubyforge.org wrote:

> Either of these is correct, but both must also support each others' 
> encodings:

No. uri.rb is based on RFC 2396 and this RFC does not define '+' as 
space escaping notation, so URI.unescape MUST NOT convert '+' into a 
space.

To use '+' as a space escaping is a CGI specific thing.  This is where 
CGI.escape and URI.escape both exists, as they should behave 
differently.

-- 
URABE, Shyouhei.