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

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• Subject: Re: OT: Where did URI pipe symbol hack originate?
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:05:08 GMT
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• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

>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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