Re: Illegality of '~' in URLs
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Subject: Re: Illegality of '~' in URLs
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> From: Olle Jarnefors <ojarnef@admin.kth.se> > To: uri@bunyip.com > Cc: Peter Svanberg <psv@nada.kth.se>se>, Olle Jarnefors <ojarnef@admin.kth.se> > Subject: Illegality of '~' in URLs > > 14 % of the http: URLs used in messages to the html-wg mailing > list this month includes the character tilde, '~'. (See the list > at the bottom of this message.) Most or all of these originate > from the Unix operating system, I assume. > > RFC 1738 doesn't allow this character in http: URLs, though: > > > httpurl = "http://" hostport [ "/" hpath [ "?" search ]] > > hpath = hsegment *[ "/" hsegment ] > > hsegment = *[ uchar | ";" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" ] > > uchar = unreserved | escape > > unreserved = alpha | digit | safe | extra > > safe = "$" | "-" | "_" | "." | "+" > > extra = "!" | "*" | "'" | "(" | ")" | "," > > Would it hurt to remove this restriction on URL syntax? > In http: URLs? In all URLs? I think it would hurt more to enforce the restriction. Chris Apple AT&T Internet Services Architecture capple@master.control.att.com
- Illegality of '~' in URLs Olle Jarnefors
- Re: Illegality of '~' in URLs capple
- Re: Illegality of '~' in URLs Larry Masinter