Re: Escaping in URIs (Was: draft-ietf-ldapbis-filter-03.txt)

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

I wrote:
> There is a bug in [last paragraph of [LDAPURL] section 5], BTW:
> 
>>   Note that characters that are not safe (e.g., spaces) (as defined in
>>   section 2.1 of [RFC2396]), (...)
> 
> RFC2396 doesn't define "safe", and section 2.1 certainly doesn't - that
> is about characters vs. octets.  I think it should be something like:
> 
>     Note that characters that are not an "uric" character, as defined
                ^^^^^^^^^^
>     in {Appendix A or section 2} of [RFC2396], (...)

Octets, not characters, since LDAPURLs are described elsewhere as UTF-8
strings.  That is, UTF-8 multibyte characters need to be esacped with
several '%'s, not just one.

As far as I can tell, no other characters in the draft need to be
octets.

-- 
Hallvard