[Seaside-dev] lowercase percent encoding

Lukas Renggli renggli at gmail.com
Fri Jan 23 20:13:25 UTC 2009


> What was the reason for changing the percent encoding to lowercase? I
> happen to think it looks better in lowercase so I was happy at first
> but I just happened to stumble across this in RFC 3986 (
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-2.1 ):

There is no particular reason other than WAPrinter generates lowercase
hex numbers by default. I did a Google search and found at several
places that case doesn't matter.

> "For consistency, URI producers and
>  normalizers should use uppercase hexadecimal digits for all percent-
>  encodings."

In this case I will extend the WAPrinter to support uppercase letters
and revert tests.

Cheers,
Lukas


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