On the use of %20 instead of + in URIs

[John Cowan]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 12:14 AM Adnan Maolood <me at adnano.co> wrote:

If servers should not treat plus signs as spaces, then I think that this
> portion of the specification should be changed to say:
>
> > Spaces in gemini URIs MUST be encoded as %20, not +.
>

+1  (not to be confused with " 1").  The usual use of x-www-form-urlencoded
format, as its name indicates, has to do with forms, which Gemini clients
don't do.  (Not that they couldn't in principle, to be sure.)




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