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The Mozilla bug is about the query component and as far as escaping goes the specification appears correct. Now conformance we may want to adjust, but that might also upset the RFC 3986 crowd...
> The Mozilla bug is about the query component and as far as escaping goes the specification appears correct. Now conformance we may want to adjust... OK, I've updated the bug summary to match. > but that might also upset the RFC 3986 crowd... At the moment, I'm resigned to the idea that the URL specification needs to have an appendix that describes the differences.
Related: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg13835.html
So what is wrong with matching RFC 3986 for validity?
Going to resolve this WORKSFORME since it's not actionable.