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

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 11 14:16:50 EDT 2013

I'm not sure which spec you're looking at from there, but the URL spec
that I linked to is the most current work on precisely specifying
URLs.

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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