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Re: TECH: URLs, part deux

From:Kelly Drinkwater <mizunomi@...>
Date:Sunday, September 30, 2007, 17:36
Are there any characters that will *never* get parsed as part of a URL
(apart from whitespace)?

On 9/30/07, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote:
> >You might not be familiar with dict, so here's clients for > >windows: <http://www.gnome.org/projects/fantasdic/>, > ><http://www.magicaljellybean.com/dict.shtml> and MacOS: > ><http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidictionary/>. > > What's with all the angle brackets lately? Yes, this was discussed a few > weeks ago, but in the context of long URLs that don't fit on a single line. > I still wouldn't mind - except for, to repeat myself, that the closing > greater-than gets parsed as a part of the URL at least on the Listserv web > interface, possibly also with some mailers? So when you are using the > brackets with short URLs, you're not avoiding breiking the URL by carriage > returns, but you ARE adding a bogus caracter to the URL that at least some > of us need to remoov by hand. I also skimmed thru the original discussion > and didn't notice anyone saying that links DON'T work for them without the > brackets. Unless someone is going to stand up as such, can y'all consider > stopping bracketing URLs that fit on a single line? Pretty please? > > John Vertical >