[plt-scheme] Problem fetching a URL

Do you (or does anyone else) have a reference to an rfc or similar that
actually says what the syntax for queries is supposed to be?
rfc3986.txt (the latest url syntax rfc I know of) doesn't seem to say.

(And there's nothing "willy nilly" about it, thank you very much!)

Robby

At Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:49:24 -0400, "Christopher Armstrong" wrote:
> On 10/11/06, Doug Orleans <dougorleans at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Robby Findler writes:
> >  > It is my understanding that semi-colons are more standards compliant.
> >  > That's why it is the default.
> >
> > In particular, the HTML 4.01 spec recommends it.
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#ampersands-in-uris
> 
> Nothing there indicates that it's OK to willy-nilly replace "&" with
> ";" when sending requests to arbitrary servers, only that they suggest
> that web app/server authors *accept* ';'.
> 
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