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Re: [faq-maintainers] Full-bore URL formatting?

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From: Nick Boalch (n.g.boalch@durham.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Feb 03 2002 - 06:34:10 CST

Earl Cooley wrote:

> How common is it for FAQs to use
>
> <URL:http://www.sample.invalid/>
>
> instead of just
>
> http://www.sample.invalid/
>
> in their FAQs?

Strictly speaking the <URL:http://www.sample.invalid/> form is more correct
(and also makes it much simpler for agents to interpret what is part of the
URL and what's punctuation).

However, I don't think there's much of an issue. Most agents seem to be
pretty good at parsing URLs.

Cheers,
Nick 

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