Jonadab wrote:
> I [try to, think I do, &c] make sure it's always delimited by
> whitespace, and since URLs cannot contain whitespace without
> encoding it (%20 and similar nonsense)... there's never any
> real ambiguity. This also allows the misguided auto-select
> features...
FWIW, problems with trailing delimiters are real. I have no idea
if autoselection, or manual selection, or what, is at fault, but
whenever I go snoop through the HTTP error logs here, I see
*lots* of attempts to fetch URLs like
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html,
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html"
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html>
I've now got redirects in place for
top.html" top.html)
top.html, top.html.
top.html; top.html>
(so that people get where they want to go, instead of getting a
404 message), and the list keeps growing.
> That still leaves the problem of URLs that are longer
> than 80 characters...
As Earl Cooley already mentioned, makeashorterlink.com is one
imaginative solution to this problem.
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