Re: URI encoding URLs on the cmdline?

On Jun 5, 2004, at 10:50 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:

> 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 '%'"?

The rule would have to be more strict than that - it would be an URI
reserved character. Unless you are the author of the URL you can't say
for certain whether the URI reserved char is being used for its
reserved purpose, or needs to be escaped.

Jim

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Received on Sun Jun 6 05:52:24 2004