The main issue I'm not sure about here is the use of ; as a query string initiator (rather than a query string parameter separator). This use of semicolons is completely non-standard, AFAIK, but it looks like there are some web servers that are actually using it this way. Comments at the pull request itself would be most useful (rather than by email).
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 1:17 PM, bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote:
HTML4 reccomended people use ; instead of & to separate url parameters, to avoid conflicts with entity references. However, afaik most web servers don't support this (I think its mostly some java things that do). See https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/appendix/ notes.html#h-B.2.2 Modern HTML5 abandoned this reccomendation afaik.
-- Brian
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 8:07 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
Could someone knowledgeable about URL encoding take a look at this pull request? Thanks! https://github.com/wikimedia/DeadlinkChecker/pull/26/files _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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