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Re: Escaping in URIs (Was: draft-ietf-ldapbis-filter-03.txt)
I wrote:
> There is a bug in [last paragraph of [LDAPURL] section 5], BTW:
>
>> Note that characters that are not safe (e.g., spaces) (as defined in
>> section 2.1 of [RFC2396]), (...)
>
> RFC2396 doesn't define "safe", and section 2.1 certainly doesn't - that
> is about characters vs. octets. I think it should be something like:
>
> Note that characters that are not an "uric" character, as defined
^^^^^^^^^^
> in {Appendix A or section 2} of [RFC2396], (...)
Octets, not characters, since LDAPURLs are described elsewhere as UTF-8
strings. That is, UTF-8 multibyte characters need to be esacped with
several '%'s, not just one.
As far as I can tell, no other characters in the draft need to be
octets.
--
Hallvard