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OT: Where did URI pipe symbol hack originate?

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• Subject: OT: Where did URI pipe symbol hack originate?
• From: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>
• Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:33:39 -0800

As is used after Windows drive letters:

file:///C|/mydir/myfile.txt

Having a little debate about whether the appropriate thing is to escape the
colon with %xx instead of using the pipe (or colon).  Has a consensus formed
that is (mostly) cross-platform compatible?

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