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RE: OT: Where did URI pipe symbol hack originate?

• To: 'Richard Tobin' <richard@c...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: OT: Where did URI pipe symbol hack originate?
• From: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>
• Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:39:43 -0800

Hah!  We've got people looking at that same RFC and saying colons are
reserved!

Guess I'll have to read it now, and add my own intrepretation.  < :-(

Not that I don't trust you, Richard.   As Gorbachev once said, "Trust, but
verify."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Tobin [mailto:richard@c...]
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:05 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  OT: Where did URI pipe symbol hack originate?
> 
> 
> >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?
> 
> There's no good reason not to use a plain colon.  It's quite legal in
> path components (see RFC 2396).
> 
> -- Richard
> 
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