[mdx] url-encoding a basic identifier

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/4/14, 1:27 PM, "Ian Young" <ian at iay.org.uk> wrote:
>
>In RFC 3986, '+' is a sub-delim, unlike things like '/' and '?' which are
>gen-delims. These classes appear to be distinguished (section 2.2) in
>that %-encoding is essentially mandatory for gen-delims when building a
>URI (so, to make a path component with '/' or '?' in it requires
>%-encoding) but whether to %-encode is scheme-specific for sub-delims. I
>can't find anything requiring %-encoding of '+' in http URLs.

If that's true, the web is broken, redux. It's basically known that that
won't work, you have to encode a '+' to get it past anything.

-- Scott
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