[Developers] GUIDs considered harmful

Kurt Bollacker kurt at metaweb.com
Sun Aug 19 17:26:29 UTC 2007


On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 12:31:21PM +0200, Will Moffat wrote:
> Can you confirm that special URL characters are illegal in keys in
> '/topic/en' ? That means that IDs in URLs won't have to be escaped at
> all. Great!

Indeed, this is already true.  Illegal key chars must represented with
$xxxx (16 bit hex unicode), making them URL safe.
 
								Kurt :-)



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