Re: URI encoding URLs on the cmdline?

On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 21:32, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> If we do "auto-escaping", then we've got users typing technically
> invalid psuedo-urls, with fuzzy rules that convert things most of the
> time. And it's hard to explain those rules.

How hard is it to explain "you can use any character you want in a URI
on the command line except for '%'"?

> And then users start pasting those fuzzy urls into web browsers and
> wondering why they don't work.

What makes you think they don't work in web browsers? Web browsers are
more than happy to auto-escape URIs. (I just checked; spaces work fine,
and so do UTF-8 characters. % characters, not so much, for obvious
reasons.)

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Received on Sun Jun 6 04:51:30 2004