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RFC 2396, "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", August 1998

Note: This RFC has been obsoleted by RFC 3986

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 2732

Source of RFC: Legacy
Area Assignment: app
See Also: RFC 2396 w/ inline errata

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Errata ID: 450
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Carl Douglas
Date Reported: 2001-04-26

Section 3.4 says:

   The query component is a string of information to be interpreted by
   the resource.

      query         = *uric

   Within a query component, the characters ";", "/", "?", ":", "@",
   "&", "=", "+", ",", and "$" are reserved.

Notes:

Section 3.4, "Query Component", of RFC 2396 (URI syntax) refers to the
"/" character as being reserved.

Reserving this character creates an inconsistency for some of today's
web servers, which confuse part of the Query Component as being part of
the Path Component when the "/" character is present in the Query
Component.

The "/" character should only be permitted in the Path Component of a
URI, and elsewhere in the URI it should be escaped by using it's hex
value.

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