Re: [apps-discuss] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-yevstifeyev-ftp-uri-scheme-04.txt

[Frank Ellermann <[e-mail]>]

On 15 July 2011 06:02, "Martin J. Dürst" wrote:

> Please read the text after the
>    reserved    = gen-delims / sub-delims
> ABNF rule in RFC 3986.

Okay, but it doesn't explain the "lost" <national> in RFC 1738:
 national = "{" | "}" | "|" | "\" | "^" | "~" | "[" | "]" | "`"
This "forbidden" set was later reduced to <unwise> in RFC 2396:
 unwise   = "{" | "}" | "|" | "\" | "^" | "[" | "]" | "`"

Skipping RFC 2732 introducing IPv6 literals using "[" and "]"
RFC 3986 does not explain that some unencoded US-ASCII char.s
are never permitted in URIs: "{" | "}" | "|" | "\" | "^" | "`"

And the "new" unencoded <gen-delims> "[" / "]" are only allowed
for "IPvNot4" literals in the <host> part of the <authority>,
no matter what any specific URI schemes such as RFC 6068 or
specific fragment specifications such as RFC 5147 might wish.

Unrelated, it is rather annoying that the IE and Chrome folks
have not yet implemented RFC 5147, this nice feature should
take the proverbial "five minutes" for a developer.

-Frank