From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2002-12-06T22:08:51+09:00
Subject: Re: CGI.escape - doesn't

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 18:45:44 +0900, Bruce Williams wrote:
> On Friday 06 December 2002 03:20 am, Eric Hodel wrote:
> | '+' is an allowed replacement for spaces. Read both cgi.rb and
> | cgi-lib.rb's escape functions. If only I know which RFC this is
> | contained in...
> 
> RFC1866 (dated Nov 1995), Section 8.2.1:

RFC1866 is for HTML 2.0; it has been obsoleted in 2000 by RFC2854,
which removes HTML from IETF to W3C control.

At the moment, I don't have time to look at the W3C HTML definition
to see if this (+ == space replacement) is still the case.

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.12.06 at 07.46.23