https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39740
--- Comment #4 from Leigh L. Klotz, Jr. <leigh.kl...@xerox.com> 2011-02-07 13:43:44 EST --- RFC 2616 is a red herring. The character "&" doesn't appear in it, nor does the word "ampersand." HTTP is agnostic about the meaning of characters in URIs; that's up to the applications on both ends. There are many ways of forming URIs with meaning, and the query-string format used by HTML4 is just one of them. Granted W3C recommendations suggest semicolon instead of ampersand, yet no desktop browsers do this. However, desktop browsers aren't the only users of HTTP or of Tomcat. Many web-based REST applications use HTTP to transport XML, JSON, ProtocolBuffers, and other application data, and allowing Tomcat to handle other forms of query string parsing would be a boon to these applications. -- Configure bugmail: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
