From what I can tell from 13 seconds of research, Newtons started out life as chewy cookies (advertised by a creepy giant dancing fig), then became fruit and cake (advertised by british accented families), and are now back to being “just cookies”.

Fruit and Cake 4LIFE!

I saw this in the Pasadena, CA Apple Store back in January. That’s how fast I am at blogging.

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Please understand the difference between the encoding called for in application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoded data [1] and the encoding called for in URIs (and how that encoding applies to URIs in the http/https scheme).

In particular, note the difference in how spaces are treated. The former encodes them as +, the later as %20.

Understand also how your web server processes different pieces of URLs. Pay particular attention to your web server’s treatment of plus signs. PHP, for example, interprets “$_GET” data (the data drawn from the query component of the URI) as though it were application/x-www-form-urlencoded and converts those plus signs to spaces [2].

Now that you know that the different encoding methods encode spaces differently and that the different decoding methods decode pluses differently, make sure you’re being consistent.

Because when I type into your website my email address with its plus sign in it, I expect things to work.

Love,
mdawaffe

[1] More details in HTML5‘s definition of the application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoding algorithm. ↑

[2] See the difference between urlencode()/urldecode() and rawurlencode()/rawurldecode(). parse_str() uses urldecode().

Decoding the query component of the URI according to application/x-www-form-urlencoded is the logical thing to do, since the web server can’t tell the difference between a GET request generated by a form and one that isn’t (since user agents are not supposed to set a “Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded” header when submitting a form over http/https via the GET method), but I can’t tell if converting pluses in the query part of the URI into spaces is required; I can’t find anything in the definition of the http URI scheme that says that plus signs are “delimiters” in the query component of the URI. So I believe it to be an implementation-specific choice and therefore up for grabs depending on how you power your web server (PHP, ruby, .NET, etc.). ↑

2009-12-07T15:11$ for i in `svn pl -R * | grep "hair:scalp"`; do sed -i '' 9,\$d $i; done
2009-12-07T15:11$ svn ci -m "Day 4: The Gorget Décapitée"
Sending        Scalp
Transmitting file data .......
Committed revision 5.
2009-12-07T15:12$ ls -h

2009-11-30T17:05$ for i in `svn pl -R * | grep "hair:facial"`; do svn del $i; done
D         Goatee
D         Sideburns Rampant
2009-11-30T17:05$ svn ci -m "Day 3: The Gorget"
Deleting       Goatee
Deleting       Sideburns Rampant
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 4.
2009-11-30T17:06$ ls -h

2009-11-29T15:32$ svn del Chinstrap
D         Chinstrap
2009-11-29T15:32$ svn ci -m "Day 2: The Trident"
Deleting       Chinstrap
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 3.
2009-11-29T15:32$ ls -h

2009-11-26T13:16$ cd /head/hair
2009-11-26T13:16$ du -ch . | grep total
 11.34g	total
2009-11-26T13:16$ svnadmin create /Repositories/hairectomy
2009-11-26T13:17$ svn import . file:///Repositories/hairectomy -m "init: the hirsute"
Adding         mustache
Adding         beard
Adding         hair

Committed revision 1.
2009-11-26T13:17$ ls -h

Day 1: The Chu Manfu

2009-11-27T13:02$ svn del 'Fu Manchu'
D         Fu Manchu
2009-11-27T13:02$ du -ch . | grep total
 10.49g	total
2009-11-27T13:03$ svn ci -m "Day 1: The Chu Manfu"
Deleting       Fu Manchu
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 2.
2009-11-27T13:03$ ls -h