"I personally wouldn't call it an "issue" because AFAIK it's optional whether spaces should be escaped as %20 or +, ..."

If you look in the paragraph where I used the word "issue", you'll see:

"It would make sense that the escaping mechanism was consistent across modules in the same distribution"

I consider the inconsistency to be an issue. I made no reference to %20 or + being better, preferred, more correct, or anything else of that ilk.

"... and it's been that way for a long time."

Yes, I know. I was coding such escapes more than two decades ago.

"From URI's Changes file:"

I would question the relevance of including that entry from almost 22 years ago; it even references HTML4 which certainly isn't current. All that I'm getting from it is: "We changed %20 to + in some places, even though we believed that to be wrong, and left everything else in an inconsistent state".

— Ken

In reply to Re^3: How encode space into %20 in URI by kcott
in thread How encode space into %20 in URI by Anonymous Monk

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