Thanks. So I am guessing that you took this sentence: “A subset of the reserved characters (gen-delims) is used as delimiters of the generic URI components described in Section 3” to mean that *ANY* of those characters may be used. That
is wrong. The meaning is when a separator is used as a delimiter it must be chosen from that set. I.e., no other character will be used. Just like “?” is used as the query indicator and “#” is used as the fragment identifier. All three things – scheme, query,
fragment – have semantics and use character from gen-delims (which must otherwise be percent-encoded) so that they can be marked off, stripped out, etc. I am sure you are not convinced. Oh well. |
