(X)Mosaic/winmosaic(2a2) differ: escaped chars in query URLs

[Matt Heffron]

When trying to use the "WWWW - the WORLD WIDE WEB WORM"
(URL: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/WWWW.html)
server, I noticed that it works correctly from (X)Mosaic,
but fails from winmosaic(2a2). It seems that (X)Mosaic
escapes (as %xx, or '+' for space) the special characters
in the query of the URLs that the form constructs, but
winmosaic sends the URLs exactly as in the form.

E.g. The example query in the form to "Find all Home Pages
in Finland" generates the following URL in winmosaic:

('@' indicates where I wrapped the line for formatting)

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/htbin/grepit?Request /home@
s/mcbryan/mosaic/home/mcbryan/WWWW_title title=2. Sea@
rch in names of HTML URL's&Keywords=\.fi\/

This returns the following:
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Mon Mar 14 23:49:49 1994 GMT
Server: NCSA/1.0a3.1
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html

No database in WWWW.html

in (X)Mosaic the same query is submitted as:
(again '@' where I wrapped the line)

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/htbin/grepit?Request+%2Fh@
omes%2Fmcbryan%2Fmosaic%2Fhome%2Fmcbryan%2FWWWW_titl@
e+title=2.+Search+in+names+of+HTML+URL%27s&Keywor@
ds=%5C.fi%5C%2F

which returned:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Mon Mar 14 23:43:59 1994 GMT
Server: NCSA/1.0a3.1
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html

<title>\.fi\/</title>
<h1>\.fi\/</h1>
<ol>
....

Who's "officially" right?

Matt Heffron

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