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Message385337

Author	lemburg
Recipients	AdamGold, lemburg, vstinner
Date	2021-01-20.12:02:44
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On 20.01.2021 12:07, STINNER Victor wrote: > Maybe we should even go further in Python 3.10 and only split at "&" by default, but let the caller to opt-in for ";" separator as well. +1. Personally, I've never seen URLs encoded with ";" as query parameter separator in practice on the server side. The use of ";" was recommended in the HTML4 spec, but only in an implementation side note: https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2 and not in the main reference: https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4.1 Browsers are also pretty relaxed about seeing non-escaped ampersands in link URLs and do the right thing, so the suggested work-around for avoiding escaping is not really needed.

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On 20.01.2021 12:07, STINNER Victor wrote:
> Maybe we should even go further in Python 3.10 and only split at "&" by default, but let the caller to opt-in for ";" separator as well.

+1.

Personally, I've never seen URLs encoded with ";" as query parameter
separator in practice on the server side.

The use of ";" was recommended in the HTML4 spec, but only in an
implementation side note:

https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2

and not in the main reference:

https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4.1

Browsers are also pretty relaxed about seeing non-escaped ampersands in
link URLs and do the right thing, so the suggested work-around for
avoiding escaping is not really needed.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2021-01-20 12:02:44	lemburg	set	recipients: + lemburg, vstinner, AdamGold
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