Re: About spaces in URL's and such.

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Matt Messina (messina@engin.umich.edu)
Fri, 1 Dec 1995 18:01:50 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 1 Dec 1995, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> Spaces should be *ignored* so you have to have %20 instead, and
> brackets are recommended.

> Url: <URL:http://www.domain.foo/pub/faq/my.faq> "Descriptive Text"

I'm not been a big fan of <URL:(url)>. If it looks like:

(scheme)://(something)

of course it's a URL, so why have the word "URL" up front? It's like
writing "English: I went to the store." But the IETF URI people disagree,
so I'll let it go.

If you want to ignore whitespace and newlines, which sounds like a good
idea, then I guess my suggestion of using whitespace as a delimiter won't
work. Using '<' and '>' as delimiters sounds looks to me.

But I think

URL: scheme://site/path

without '<' and '>' should be recognized (but not encouraged) because we
can be pretty sure that someone will use that form.

-- 
Matt Messina
messina@umich.edu


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