[racket] Preventing get-impure-port from url-encoding the query

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 11 14:14:44 EDT 2013

I'm looking at the spec: http://www.w3.org/Addressing/

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Evan Donahue <emdonahu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello, I am trying to use the racket networking libraries for a basic set of
>>> get and post requests. I need to send a url of the form:
>>>
>>> http://foo.com/?url=http://bar.com?baz=1000 (NOT form encoded)
>>
>> As far as I can tell from URL specs, this is not a URL.
>
> I don't think that's correct. In particular, see
> http://url.spec.whatwg.org/#query-state and step 3 there, as well as
> the definition on URL code point here:
> http://url.spec.whatwg.org/#url-code-points which includes all of the
> characters in Evan's query.
>
> Sam



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