Re: [apps-discuss] draft-ietf-appsawg-json-pointer escape characters

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Fri, 13 April 2012 07:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] draft-ietf-appsawg-json-pointer escape characters
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On 2012-04-13 01:27, Manger, James H wrote:
>>    a/b
>>
>> would simply become
>>
>>    a%2fb
>>
>> and wouldn't need any further escaping in a URI path component.
>
> Not true. The % then needs escaping when you put the JSON pointer in a URI.
>
>    a%252fb
>
> --
> James Manger

No. The whole idea is to produce a string that can be used as a valid 
URI path directly.

Best regards, Julian