Subject: RE: [Sip] % in user part of sip uri

From: Adam Roach <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:46:37 -0600

To further reinforce this: it's fundamentally a URI escaping issue.
For example, to indicate the e-mail address "[email-masked]"
in a "mailto" URL, you would be forced to represent it as 
"mailto:[email-masked]"

/a

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henning Schulzrinne [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 8:15
> To: [email-masked]
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: [Sip] % in user part of sip uri
> 
> 
> Don't panic... Please consult any URI document, e.g., RFC 
> 1738. % needs 
> to be escaped, but can appear as %25.
> 
> [email-masked] wrote:
> > what is the reason why % is not allowed as a normal character in the
> > user part of sip uri?  in email addresses % has been 
> allowed and used in
> > the user part forever.  unless there exists a VERY GOOD 
> reason to break
> > away from the 20 year old tradition as standardized in rfc 
> 821 and later
> > confirmed in rfc 2486, i suggest that this is recorded as a 
> bug to be
> > fixed in the next revision of rfc 3261.
> > 
> > -- juha
> > 
> > 
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