From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2006-05-06T20:04:18+09:00
Subject: Re: URI parsing barfs on '^'

PA wrote:
> 
> On May 06, 2006, at 11:55, Alex Young wrote:
> 
>> The question is, should '^' need to be quoted?  It's not named as a 
>> reserved character in RFC 3986, which I *think* is the most recent URI 
>> definition, so shouldn't URI.parse be able to handle it?
> 
> 
> My guess is that Ruby's URI parser takes its inspiration from RFC 2396, 
> which uri/common.rb refers to:
> 
> 2.4.3. Excluded US-ASCII Characters
> 
>    unwise      = "{" | "}" | "|" | "\" | "^" | "[" | "]" | "`"
> 
>    Data corresponding to excluded characters must be escaped in order to
>    be properly represented within a URI.
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
Gotcha.  Thought it'd be something obvious...

-- 
Alex