Stream: implementers
Topic: Escaping : in search
Paul Church (Aug 18 2020 at 17:38):
https://www.hl7.org/fhir/search.html#date states "Some user agents may escape the : characters in the URL, and servers SHALL handle this correctly." It doesn't say escaped by what character.
https://www.hl7.org/fhir/search.html#escaping does not list : as one of the characters escaped by \
Is the intent that they be escaped some other way? Or should this be one of the \ escaped characters? Are there any other escaped characters that we're missing?
Michele Mottini (Aug 18 2020 at 17:41):
I think it means URL-escaped: %3A
Michele Mottini (Aug 18 2020 at 17:42):
as in any parameters can (and probably is) URL escaped
Paul Church (Aug 18 2020 at 17:49):
Sounds plausible. It seems odd to call out a SHALL requirement when all of the digits in the date could also be URL escaped and any reasonable http server can deal with that...there's nothing special about :.
Vassil Peytchev (Aug 18 2020 at 17:50):
Maybe because : is part of the URL scheme, and considered a reserved character? It is kind of special...
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