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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com> on 1996/06/23 23:15:50 UTC

incomplete doc (fwd)

Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 22:07:16 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Borja Etxebarria <bo...@bips00.bi.ehu.es>
To: apache-bugs@mail.apache.org
Subject: incomplete doc
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In several places at apache documentation there are references as this one:

    ...  a (%-encoded) URL ....

other times %-decoded instead of %-encoded

but nowhere in the documentation is explained what does %-encoded or %-decoded
mean!



Borja
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Re: incomplete doc (fwd)

Posted by Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>.
Scratch that, "%-encoded" and "%-decoded" is correct, but it should be
explained. Perhaps it's time for a glossary.  Basically it means going
either to or from the encoding scheme most URL's are sent through to be
7-bit and SGML-safe. 

	Brian

On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 22:07:16 +0200 (MET DST)
> > Subject: incomplete doc
> > 
> > In several places at apache documentation there are references as this one:
> > 
> >     ...  a (%-encoded) URL ....
> > 
> > other times %-decoded instead of %-encoded
> > 
> > but nowhere in the documentation is explained what does %-encoded or %-decoded
> > mean!
> 
> You're right, it should be "URL-encoded", meaning that most
> non-alpha-numeric characters are encoded using %, i.e. %26 for a space
> char.  I'll try and track those down.
> 
> 	Brian
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Re: incomplete doc (fwd)

Posted by Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>.
> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 22:07:16 +0200 (MET DST)
> Subject: incomplete doc
> 
> In several places at apache documentation there are references as this one:
> 
>     ...  a (%-encoded) URL ....
> 
> other times %-decoded instead of %-encoded
> 
> but nowhere in the documentation is explained what does %-encoded or %-decoded
> mean!

You're right, it should be "URL-encoded", meaning that most
non-alpha-numeric characters are encoded using %, i.e. %26 for a space
char.  I'll try and track those down.

	Brian

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