Ryan Tomayko said: > On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 19:57, Javier Perez wrote: >> I thought this encoding style had been eliminated in Internet Explorer >> with the latest patch. >> How soon until it is abolished Internet-wide... > > no. This is the standard/only way of escaping reserved characters in > URLs. If it were to be removed/unsupported, something like 60% of the > URLs out there (and hence 60% of web) would become invalid and stop > working. The thing that was removed from IE was support for username@password in http URL's, not any encoding. The argument was that it's unsafe and that there's no non-obsolete RFC that specifies it. From my reading of the ensuing ruckus, the "unsafe" part is a series of IE bugs, and the RFC issue is debatable, but probably correct. Eric.
